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Legal Medicine

Volume 17, Issue 4, July 2015, Pages 295-297
Legal Medicine

Announcement of Population Data
Allele frequencies of 23 autosomal short tandem repeat loci in the Philippine population

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Abstract

We characterized diversity and forensic descriptive parameters of 23 autosomal STR loci (CSF1PO, D13S317, D16S539, D5S818, D7S820, TPOX, D18S51, D21S11, D3S1358, D8S1179, FGA, TH01, vWA, D1S1656, D10S1248, D12S391, D2S441, D22S1045, D19S433, D2S1338, D6S1043, Penta D and Penta E) among 167 unrelated Filipinos. The most variable autosomal STR loci observed is Penta E (observed heterozygosity: 0.9222, match probability: 0.0167). Results reveal matching probability of 8.21 × 10−28 for 23 autosomal STR loci. This dataset for the Philippine population may now be used in evaluating the weight of DNA evidence for forensic applications such as in human identification, parentage/kinship testing, and interpretation of DNA mixtures.

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Acknowledgments

This study was funded by the University of the Philippines Los Baños Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension under the Basic Research Program (Accession Code: 88-E27-23). Ethical aspects of this study have been reviewed and approved by the University of the Philippines Manila Research Ethics Board (UPMREB-0321). Special thanks to the University of the Philippines Diliman Natural Sciences Research Institute, our colleagues from the DNA Analysis Laboratory: Maria Lourdes Honrado,

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