title: Forensic evaluation of STR data for the PowerPlex 16 System loci in a Bangladeshi population.
abstract: Allele frequencies of 15 autosomal STR loci included in PowerPlex 16 System were determined from a sample of 148 unrelated Bangladeshi individuals. Forensic efficiency parameters such as, the power of discrimination (PD), observed and expected heterozygosity (H), polymorphism information content (PIC), probability of match (PM), power of exclusion (PE), and typical paternity index were calculated for the loci. These parameters indicated the usefulness of the loci in paternity testing and personal identification in the Bangladeshi population.
authors.affiliation: National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory, Department of Forensic Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferdous
authors.forename: Mohammad Eunus
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Shafiul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alam
authors.forename: Mahamud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hasan
authors.forename: Tania
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hossain
authors.forename: Sharif
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akhteruzzaman
mesh_terms: D001459:Bangladesh; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences