title: A comprehensive population survey on the distribution of STR frequencies in Belarus.
abstract: This work develops a detailed STR database from 11 population samples and samples from paternity analyses from different districts of Belarus. The combined data on 2020 individuals form a total database for the country, with the exclusion power of 99.987% based on 11 STR loci. Possible differentiation in allele frequencies between population samples, small in terms of F-statistics and undetectable by standard statistical tests, is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of General Genetics, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. levazh@gmail.com <levazh@gmail.com>
authors.forename: Lev A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Zhivotovsky
authors.forename: Vera M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Veremeichyk
authors.forename: Alexei I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Mikulich
authors.forename: Irina G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Udina
authors.forename: Ljubov' A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Atramentova
authors.forename: Svetlana A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Kotova
authors.forename: Nikolai A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Kartel
authors.forename: Iosif S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Tsybovsky
mesh_terms: D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005260:Female; D044707:Forensic Sciences / Q000295:instrumentation; D005787:Gene Frequency; D018740:Genetic Heterogeneity; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D002094:Republic of Belarus