title: [Identification of a rare D13S317-5 allele in an ethnic Han Chinese from Hainan].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report on a rare D13S317-off-ladder (OL) allele identified in an ethnic Han Chinese from Hainan.
  
  
  METHODS
  The rare allele D13S317-OL was detected with a short tandem repeat (STR)-PCR method and DNA sequencing.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The core repeat sequence of the rare allele was found to be [TATC]5.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The rare D13S317-5 allele also exists among ethnic Hans from Hainan, which may have a significant value for personal identification and paternity testing.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Blood Transfusion, Blood Center of Hainan Province, Haikou, Hainan 570311,China. mwfandmwf@sina.com.
authors.forename: Yaqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Sen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xiaochuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yingai
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D010334:Paternity; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods