Analysis of the D1S80 (pMCT118) VNTR locus polymorphism in a native Kuwaiti population by the polymerase chain reaction |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO;2. Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer-US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA;3. Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine, and Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD;4. Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX;5. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;6. Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;7. Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, MD |
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Abstract: | We have determined the allele and genotype frequencies at the hypervariable locus D1S80 in a native Kuwaiti population using the polymerase chain reaction technique and subsequent high resolution gel electrophoresis. In a sample of 200 individuals, 21 alleles and 57 genotypes were detected. The alleles with 18 and 24 repeat units were most common with frequencies of 0.188 and 0.408 respectively. The distribution of the observed genotypes was in agreement with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium prediction. The observed heterozygosity for the population sample was 0.80 with the allelic diversity of 0.781 ± 0.029 and the power of discrimination was 0.94. The data obtained in this study are potentially useful for individual identification in forensic casework. |
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