title: Jewish population genetic data in 20 polymorphic loci.
abstract: Frequency data of 20 polymorphisms (13 autosomal and 6 Y-chromosome STRs and the Alu-insertion YAP) were determined in a sample of 124 unrelated Jewish individuals from Ashkenazi, Sephardic, North African and Oriental origin. The a priori statistical power of the set of studied loci was highly discriminating (PD=1 in 2.393 E+15 individuals for autosomal STRs, and a probability of finding two unrelated males with the same haplotype of less than 0.01). Some significant population differences were registered between Jews and other Circummediterranean populations in Y-chromosome loci frequencies.
authors.affiliation: Laboratori de Genètica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Cra. Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain. apicornell@uib.es
authors.forename: Antònia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Picornell
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tomàs
authors.forename: Gema
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jiménez
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.forename: M Misericòrdia
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ramon
mesh_terms: D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D007585:Jews / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics*; D014998:Y Chromosome / Q000235:genetics*