title: STR loci Penta D and Penta E: data from a Northern Thai population sample.
abstract: We designed new primers that give shorter amplicons for Penta D and Penta E for easy separation on native polyacrylamide gels. 112 unrelated Northern Thai men were typed. A total of nine and eight-teen alleles was found for Penta D and Penta E, respectively. Both loci showed a high power of discrimination (Penta D: 0.927; Penta E: 0.966; both loci combined: 0.9975) as reported in other populations. Penta D met Hardy-Weinberg expectations, whereas Penta E did not, maybe because of the small sample size in relation to the large number of alleles of this locus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
authors.forename: Tanin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bhoopat
authors.forename: Heinrich F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Steger
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002884:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15 / Q000235:genetics; D002891:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21 / Q000235:genetics; D017931:DNA Primers; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences; D013785:Thailand
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers