title: STR data for the Amp FlSTR Profiler Plus loci among 27 populations of different social hierarchy from southern part of Andhra Pradesh, India.
abstract: Allele frequency for the 9 STR loci (D3S1358, vWA, FGA, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D5S818, D13S317, D7S820) were estimated from a total of 1096 individuals belonging to 27 endogamous populations from the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, covering the entire gamut of socio-economic variation of the linguistic region. These loci are found to be highly polymorphic within the populations with high levels of average heterozygosity (>0.80). However, the allele frequency distributions are fairly uniform across the populations in case of these loci suggesting relatively greater homogeneity among the populations. Regrouping populations into five broad socio-economic categories further reiterated the homogenous pattern of genetic diversity.
authors.affiliation: Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata 700 108, India. bmr@isical.ac.in
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Naidu
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Madhavi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thangaraj
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Langstieh
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Venkataramana
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012923:Social Class; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences