ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 4

United States Population Data on the Multiplex Short Tandem Repeat Loci—HUMTHO1, TPOX, and CSF1PO—and the Variable Number Tandem Repeat Locus D1S80
Budowle, B
Forensic Science Research and Training Center, FBI Academy, VA

Smerick, JB
Forensic Science Research and Training Center, FBI Academy, VA

Keys, KM
Forensic Science Research and Training Center, FBI Academy, VA

Moretti, TR

(Received 1 July 1996; accepted 3 December 1996)

Abstract

Allele frequencies for three tetrameric short tandem repeat (STR) loci HUMTHO1, TPOX, and CSF1PO and a variable number tandem repeat locus D1S80 were determined in United States Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic sample populations. All loci, except the TPOX locus in the Caucasian sample population, meet Hardy-Weinberg expectations. There is no evidence for association of alleles among the four loci. The allelic frequency data are similar to other comparable data within the same major population group.

Keywords:
forensic science, DNA typing, genetic markers, population genetics, polymerase chain reaction, variable number of tandem repeats, short tandem repeats, THO1, TPOX, CSF1PO, D1S80, United States, allele frequencies

Paper ID: JFS14219J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS14219J
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