ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
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The Distribution of D1S80 (pMCT118) Alleles in a Southern Italian Population Sample
Alessio, A
Forensic Genetic Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Messina,

Claudio, C
Forensic Genetic Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Messina,

(Received 20 June 1997; accepted 7 December 1997)

Abstract

A population study on the distribution of alleles for the D1S80 locus (pMCT118) was carried out on 141 unrelated and healthy blood donors from the province of Messina (Eastern Sicily). Forty-two different genotypes and 16 different alleles were observed and two of these were found to be relatively common in the sample. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was tested using a preliminary simple chi-square method by binning in five groups and an exact test. The results demonstrated that the population was in HWE for both tests. A comparison of our data with other population studies showed that the distributions of alleles were similar.

Keywords:
forensic science, DNA typing, population genetics, D1S80, Messina, Sicily, Italy

Paper ID: JFS14330J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS14330J
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