title: Genetic profile of the Madeira Archipelago population using the new PowerPlex16 System kit.
abstract: Allele and haplotype frequencies of 17 chromosome STR loci, 15 of them included in the kit PowerPlex 16 System from Promega, were determined in a sample of unrelated males from Madeira and Porto Santo Islands. PowerPlex 16 includes STRs not studied before in the Madeira population. The-kit includes two new allele markers (Penta D and Penta E), which proved to be extremely useful for paternity testing (PD = 0.952 and 0.977, respectively). The study revealed that the Madeira population does not differ from that of the north Portugal. Nevertheless, some loci presented alleles found in sub-Saharan and North European populations which were not reported so far in Portugal.
authors: Human Genetics Laboratory, Centre of Biological Sciences, University of Madeira, Campus of Penteada, 9000 Funchal, Portugal.
authors: Ana Teresa
authors: AT
authors: Fernandes
authors: António
authors: A
authors: Brehm
authors: Cíntia
authors: C
authors: Alves
authors: Leonor
authors: L
authors: Gusmão
authors: António
authors: A
authors: Amorim
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D011174:Portugal; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences