title: Typing of eight short tandem repeat (STR) loci in a Saudi Arabian population.
abstract: Allele frequency data for eight short tandem repeat (STR) loci, HUMF13A01, HUMFESFPS, HUMF13B, HUMLPL, HUMCSF1PO, HUMTPOX, HUMTHO1 and HUMvWA, were obtained for unrelated individuals in a Saudi Arabian population. All loci, except F13B (P = 0.037) and LPL (P = 0.035), meet Hardy-Weinberg expectations, based on the exact test. The most informative locus is HUMvWA (PD = 0.936) and the least discriminating is the HUMTPOX locus (PD = 0.820). There was only one observation of a departure from expectation from pairwise locus comparisons. These data can be used for estimating the frequency of STR profiles in a Saudi Arabian population.
authors.affiliation: ReliaGene Technologies, Inc., New Orleans, LA, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amjad
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hamby
authors.forename: U A
authors.initials: UA
authors.lastname: Tahir
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Balamurugan
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: al-Kubaidan
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Choudhry
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Budowle
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Tahir
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004247:DNA