title: Regional Italian allele frequencies at nine short tandem repeat loci.
abstract: An Italian population study was performed on the loci D3S1358, vWA, FGA, TH01, TPOX, CSF1PO, D5S818, D13S317, D7S820 and a portion of the X-Y homologous gene Amelogenin for gender determination using the AmpFlSTR Profiler kit (PE Biosystems, Foster city, CA). This study was done on a population of 618 unrelated Italian individuals from 18 regions in Italy (except for Valle d'Aosta and Sardinia) to determine allele frequencies for each STR locus, and to evaluate STR technology for developing an Italian Offender DNA database.
authors.affiliation: Italian National Police, Forensic Science Service, Division III, DNA Unit, Viale dell'Aeronautica, 7 00144 Rome, Italy. renatdna@tiscalinet.it
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Biondo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spinella
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Montagna
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Holt
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Budowle
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D053523:Amelogenin; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003746:Dental Enamel Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency / Q000235:genetics*; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012732:Sex Determination Analysis; D014960:X Chromosome / Q000235:genetics; D014998:Y Chromosome / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D053523:Amelogenin; D003746:Dental Enamel Proteins