Population genetic data on 15 autosomal STRs in a Pakistani population sample

Received 8 September 2008; received in revised form 3 August 2009; accepted 10 August 2009. published online 09 September 2009.

Abstract

Allele frequencies for the 15 STR loci (D3S1358, TH01, D21S11, D18S51, Penta E, D5S818, D13S317, D7S820, D16S539, CSF1PO, Penta D, VWA, D8S1179, TPOX and FGA) were investigated using PowerPlex®16 amplification kit in a sample of 328 unrelated individuals from Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The allelic distributions were in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium for all loci except for the loci FGA, TPX and THO1. Various forensic indices were calculated and a comparison was made with geographically nearby populations.

Keywords: Pakistani population data, Short Tandem Repeats (STR), PowerPlex®16 kit

a The State Key Subject for Forensic Sciences, The Key Laboratory of National Ministry of Health for Forensic Sciences, The Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases, Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710061, PR China

b Department of Forensic & Investigative Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, United Kingdom

Corresponding author. Address: Department of Forensic Sciences, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710061 Shaanxi, PR China. Tel.: +86 29 82657449.

PII: S1344-6223(09)00321-6

doi:10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.08.001

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