title: An STR database on the Volga-Ural population.
abstract: This work develops a reference STR database on the Volga-Ural population, Russia, comprised of 640 individuals that were sampled from eight ethnic groups (Finno-Ugric Mari, Mordva-Moksha, Mordva-Erzja, Komi-Permjak, and Udmurt, and Turkic-speaking Bashkir, Tatar-Mishary, and Chuvash) and typed with 10 autosomal STR markers: TH01, CSF1P0, FGA, vWA, D3S1358, TPOX, D16S539, D8S1179, D13S317, FES. The groups differentiate in allele frequencies, and therefore we computed theta-values between allele frequencies in each ethnic groups and those in the database as a measure of their differentiation. Nevertheless, the Volga-Ural ethnic groups form a relatively compact cluster that greatly deviate from the Romanic Moldovans and the Turkic Yakuts, taken for comparison, and are closer to the Slavic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians, although significantly differ from those as well.
authors: Institute of General Genetics, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkin St. 3, Moscow 119991, Russia. levazh@gmail.com
authors: Lev A
authors: LA
authors: Zhivotovsky
authors: Vita L
authors: VL
authors: Akhmetova
authors: Sardana A
authors: SA
authors: Fedorova
authors: Victoria V
authors: VV
authors: Zhirkova
authors: Elza K
authors: EK
authors: Khusnutdinova
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics; D004247:DNA / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D053803:Forensic Genetics / Q000379:methods; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D044382:Population Groups / Q000235:genetics*; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D006178:Romani People / Q000235:genetics; D012426:Russia; D044465:White People / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004247:DNA