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Allele Frequencies of 15 STR Loci (Identifiler™ Kit) in Basque-Americans
Legal Medicine
  • Jason Besecker, Boise State University
  • Gianluca Peri, Boise State University
  • Michael Davis, Boise State University
  • Josu Zubizarreta, Boise State University
  • Greg Hampikian, Boise State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2018
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2017.12.009
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Abstract

Individuals with Basque ancestry form a historically and culturally important minority of the population of the western United States. Allele frequencies for the 15 autosomal STRs in the AmpFlSTR® Identifiler® PCR Amplification Kit (Applied Biosystems) from 156 unrelated self-identified Basque individuals born in the United States are presented. Allele frequencies were used to calculate parameters commonly used in genetics and forensics including power of discrimination (PD), power of exclusion (PE), polymorphic information content (PIC), and expected heterozygosity (He). The sample population was also compared with the European Basque population and the major American ethnicities.

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This is an author-produced, peer-reviewed version of this article. © 2018, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . The final, definitive version of this document can be found online at Legal Medicine, doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2017.12.009

Citation Information
Besecker, Jason; Peri, Gianluca; Davis, Michael; Zubizarreta, Josu; and Hampikian, Greg. (2018). "Allele Frequencies of 15 STR Loci (Identifiler™ Kit) in Basque-Americans". Legal Medicine, 31, 17-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2017.12.009