Typing of eight short tandem repeat (STR) loci in a Saudi Arabian population.
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.
Sinha
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S
ReliaGene Technologies, Inc., New Orleans, LA, USA.
Amjad
M
M
Rogers
C
C
Hamby
J E
JE
Tahir
U A
UA
Balamurugan
K
K
al-Kubaidan
N A
NA
Choudhry
A R
AR
Budowle
B
B
Tahir
M A
MA
D000483:Alleles; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics*
D004247:DNA