title: Autosomal STR data on the enigmatic Andaman Islanders.
abstract: We have analyzed nine autosomal STR loci (D3S1358, vWA, FGA, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D5S818, D13S317, and D7S820) in 97 samples of enigmatic Andaman islanders including: 15 Great Andamanese, 46 Onge and 36 Nicobarese. Data was compared with the available data on Indian and South East Asian populations. Heterozygosity (H), power of discrimination (PD), probability exclusion (PE), typical paternity index (TPI), polymorphism information content (PIC), AMOVA and Arlequin analysis were carried out. Average heterozygosity observed was high and almost equal in all the populations. Similarly, PD, PE, TPI and PIC have been almost equal in all the populations.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cellular and Molecular biology, Hyderabad 500 007, India.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thangaraj
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chaubey
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences