title: Distribution of allele frequencies for two tetranucleotide repeats (FES and D2S1328) among five Indian population groups.
abstract: The distribution of allele frequencies have been analyzed at two short tandem repeat (STR) loci FES and D2S1328 among five anthropologically distinct ethnic groups of India namely Ezhavas, Nairs, Arayas, Vishwakarma and Muslims. Muslims are religio-ethnic group while other populations mentioned above belong to distinct section of Hindu religion. All these populations are from Kollam district of Kerala in South India and speak Malayalam, an Indo-Dravidian language. A total of 264 random, healthy individuals of FES and 197 individuals for D2S1328 were analyzed.
authors.affiliation: Low Level Radiation Studies Section, Bio-Science Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400 085, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Shazia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seshadri
mesh_terms: D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats