Genetic profile of the Madeira Archipelago population using the new PowerPlex16 System kit.
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.
Fernandes
Ana Teresa
AT
Human Genetics Laboratory, Centre of Biological Sciences, University of Madeira, Campus of Penteada, 9000 Funchal, Portugal.
Brehm
António
A
Alves
Cíntia
C
Gusmão
Leonor
L
Amorim
António
A
D000483:Alleles; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D011174:Portugal; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences