title: Belarusian population genetic database for 15 autosomal STR loci.
abstract: Allele frequencies of 15 short tandem repeat loci included in the AmpFlSTR Identifiler kit (Applied Biosystems) were obtained from a sample set of unrelated individuals living in Belarus (n=176). For all loci, no deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was found. Results were compared with data available for the Belarusian minority residing in northeastern Poland and for other Slavic populations. Statistically significant differences were observed between Belarusians and all compared populations. The values of heterozygosity, polymorphic information content (PIC), power of discrimination (PD), power of exclusion (PE), paternity index (PI) and matching probability (pM) were calculated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland ul. Debowa 23, 80-204 Gdańsk, Poland. k.rebala@amg.gda.pl
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rebała
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wysocka
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kapińska
authors.forename: Lidia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cybulska
authors.forename: Alexei I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Mikulich
authors.forename: Iosif S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Tsybovsky
authors.forename: Zofia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Szczerkowska
mesh_terms: D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D002094:Republic of Belarus; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences