title: Informativeness of the CODIS STR loci for admixture analysis.
abstract: Population admixture (or ancestry) is used as an approach to gene discovery in complex diseases, particularly when the disease prevalence varies widely across geographic populations. Admixture analysis could be useful for forensics because an indication of a perpetrator's ancestry would narrow the pool of suspects for a particular crime. The purpose of this study was to use Fisher's information to identify informative sets of markers for admixture analysis. Using published founding population allele frequencies we test three marker sets for efficacy for estimating admixture: the FBI CODIS Core STR loci, the HGDP-CEPH Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel and the set of 39 ancestry informative SNPS from the Shriver lab at Pennsylvania State University. We conclude that the FBI CODIS Core STR set is valid for admixture analysis, but not the most precise. We recommend using a combination of the most informative markers from the HGDP-CEPH and Shriver loci sets.
authors.affiliation: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Tampa, FL 33612, USA. barnhojs@moffitt.usf.edu
authors.forename: Jill S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Barnholtz-Sloan
authors.forename: Carrie L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Pfaff
authors.forename: Ranajit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.forename: Jeffrey C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Long
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005819:Genetic Markers; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers