title: Allelic frequencies and heterozygosities of microsatellite markers covering the whole genome in the Korean.
abstract: Microsatellite markers are an essential tool for genetic linkage analysis because of their high polymorphism content. Four hundred commercially available markers covering the entire genome were genotyped from 578 sib individuals from 249 Korean families. Allelic frequencies and heterozygosities were determined for each marker loci and compared between Korean, Taiwanese, Japanese and Caucasian populations. In the three Asian populations, 10-13% of the markers had less than 0.6 heterozygosity, whereas in the Caucasian population, only 0.5% of the markers had less than 0.6 heterozygosity. Mean identical by descent (IBD) values were calculated for 578 sib individuals. Analysis of IBD values greater than 0.5 suggested that markers with low heterozygosity can also provide positive linkages, at least for the IBD sharing method of model-free linkage analysis. The data presented in this study will be a useful reference for genome-wide screens of Koreans and comparative studies with other ethnic populations.
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, 5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: M-H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, 5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: K-S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, 5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Genome Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Disease, Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, 110-744, South Korea.
authors.forename: Y-M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Genome Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Disease, Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, 110-744, South Korea.
authors.forename: H-K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Genome Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Disease, Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, 110-744, South Korea.
authors.forename: K-S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Genome Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Shinchon-Dong, Seodaemun-Ku, Seoul, 120-752, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: D-J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Genome Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Shinchon-Dong, Seodaemun-Ku, Seoul, 120-752, Republic of Korea.|Division of Cardiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Shinchon-Dong, Seodaemun-Ku, Seoul, 120-752, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, 5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: K-J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, 5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, 5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: H-L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, 5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.affiliation: Division of Structural and Functional Genomics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, 5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, Republic of Korea. leejy63@nih.go.kr.
authors.forename: J-Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics*; D005190:Family; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006580:Genetic Carrier Screening; D005819:Genetic Markers; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D013624:Taiwan / Q000208:ethnology; D044465:White People / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers