title: Population data of 17 Y-STR loci from Rio Grande do Sul state (South Brazil).
abstract: A sample of 255 Brazilian males from Rio Grande do Sul (RS), the Brazilian southernmost state, was typed for 17 Y-STR loci (DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, DYS448, DYS456, DYS458, DYS635, YGATA_H4.1 and DYS385ab). A total of 247 haplotypes were identified, of which 239 were unique and eight were found in two individuals each. The haplotype diversity (99.98%) and discrimination capacity (96.86%) were calculated. Pairwise haplotype distances showed that the RS population is not significantly different from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, and Argentina, is different from São Paulo, Italy, and North Portugal, and is very distant from Spain, the Amazon region, Germany, and South Amerindians. When the RS data was separated in the seven geopolitical regions, some pairs of regions were significantly different; however no region was different from the whole Brazilian sample.
authors: Setor de Genética Forense, Laboratório de Perícias, Instituto-Geral de Perícias, Secretaria da Segurança Pública do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. solange-schwengber@igp.rs.gov.br
authors: Solange P
authors: SP
authors: Schwengber
authors: Trícia
authors: T
authors: Kommers
authors: Cecília H F
authors: CH
authors: Matte
authors: Paulo E
authors: PE
authors: Raimann
authors: Bianca A
authors: BA
authors: Carvalho
authors: Fabio P N
authors: FP
authors: Leite
authors: Marcelo A
authors: MA
authors: Medeiros
authors: Luis F
authors: LF
authors: Souza
authors: Cibele S
authors: CS
authors: Castro
authors: Fernanda G C
authors: FG
authors: Chassot
authors: Sandro L
authors: SL
authors: Bonatto
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences