title: Population genetics of the 15 AmpF lSTR Identifiler loci in Kosovo Albanians.
abstract: The 15 AmpF lSTR Identifiler loci (D8S1179, D21S11, D7S820, CSF1PO, D3S1358, THO1, D13S317, D16S539, D2S1338, D19S433, VWA, TPOX, D18S51, D5S818 and FGA) were analyzed in a sample of 136 unrelated Albanian adults from Kosovo. The agreement with HWE was confirmed for all loci with the exception of TPOX (based on the exact test only). The combined power of discrimination (PD) and the combined power of exclusion (PE) for the 15 studied loci were 0.99999999999999997 and 0.9999995, respectively. According to the presented data, FGA proved to be the most informative marker. An interpopulation comparison between Kosovo Albanians and Croatians (as an example of a population from the Balkans) revealed significant differences in four out of nine loci.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. milkubat@yahoo.com
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kubat
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Skavić
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Behluli
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nuraj
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bekteshi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Behluli
authors.forename: I Martinović
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Klarić
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pericić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000415:Albania / Q000208:ethnology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D015022:Yugoslavia / Q000453:epidemiology