STR loci Penta D and Penta E: data from a Northern Thai population sample

Tanin Bhoopat; Heinrich F Steger

doi:10.1016/j.legalmed.2004.03.002

STR loci Penta D and Penta E: data from a Northern Thai population sample

Leg Med (Tokyo). 2004 Jul;6(3):174-7. doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2004.03.002.

Authors

Tanin Bhoopat¹, Heinrich F Steger

Affiliation

¹ Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

PMID: 15231287
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2004.03.002

Abstract

We designed new primers that give shorter amplicons for Penta D and Penta E for easy separation on native polyacrylamide gels. 112 unrelated Northern Thai men were typed. A total of nine and eight-teen alleles was found for Penta D and Penta E, respectively. Both loci showed a high power of discrimination (Penta D: 0.927; Penta E: 0.966; both loci combined: 0.9975) as reported in other populations. Penta D met Hardy-Weinberg expectations, whereas Penta E did not, maybe because of the small sample size in relation to the large number of alleles of this locus.

MeSH terms

Alleles
Asian People / genetics*
Base Sequence
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15 / genetics
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21 / genetics
DNA Primers
Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Forensic Medicine
Genetics, Population
Humans
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Tandem Repeat Sequences*
Thailand

Substances

DNA Primers