Analysis of forensically used autosomal short tandem repeat markers in Polish and neighboring populations

Soltyszewski, Ireneusz; Plocienniczak, Andrzej; Fabricius, Hans Åke; Kornienko, Igor; Vodolazhsky, Dmitrij; Parson, Walther; Hradil, Roman; Schmitter, Hermann; Ivanov, Pavel; Kuzniar, Piotr; Malyarchuk, Boris A.; Grzybowski, Tomasz; Woźniak, Marcin; Henke, Jűrgen; Henke, Lotte; Olkhovets, Sergiv; Voitenko, Vladimir; Lagus, Vita; Ficek, Andrej; Minárik, Gabriel; de Knijff, Peter; Rębała, Krzysztof; Wysocka, Joanna; Kapińska, Ewa; Cybulska, Lidia; Mikulich, Alexei I.; Tsybovsky, Iosif S.; Szczerkowska, Zofia; Krajewski, Paweł; Ploski, Rafał

doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2008.02.003

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Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages 205-211, June 2008

Analysis of forensically used autosomal short tandem repeat markers in Polish and neighboring populations

Ireneusz Soltyszewski
- University of Varmia and Mazury, Department of Criminalistics and Forensic Medicine, Olsztyn, Poland
Andrzej Plocienniczak
- Institute of Biotechnology and Antibiotics, Warsaw, Poland
Hans Åke Fabricius
- Vivantes Institut für Laboratoriumsdiagnostik, Berlin, Germany
Igor Kornienko
- North-Caucasian Military District, 16 State Center of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistic Investigations, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
- South State Universty, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
Dmitrij Vodolazhsky
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Southern Scientific Center, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
Walther Parson
- Innsbruck Medical University, Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria
Roman Hradil
- Institute of Criminalistics, Prague, Czech Republic
Hermann Schmitter
- Bundeskriminalamt, Kriminaltechnisches Institut, Wiesbaden, Germany
Pavel Ivanov
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russian Federation
Piotr Kuzniar
- Medical University in Warsaw, Department of Medical Genetics, Department of Forensic Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
Boris A. Malyarchuk
- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Genetics Laboratory, Far-East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russian Federation
Tomasz Grzybowski
- The Nicolaus Copernicus University, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Department of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Marcin Woźniak
- The Nicolaus Copernicus University, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Department of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Jűrgen Henke
- Institut für Blutgruppenforschung LGC GmbH, Koeln, Germany
Lotte Henke
- Institut für Blutgruppenforschung LGC GmbH, Koeln, Germany
Sergiv Olkhovets
- Medicine and Biology Department, State Scientific Research, Expertise and Forensic Centre, Ukraine
Vladimir Voitenko
- Medicine and Biology Department, State Scientific Research, Expertise and Forensic Centre, Ukraine
Vita Lagus
- Medicine and Biology Department, State Scientific Research, Expertise and Forensic Centre, Ukraine
Andrej Ficek
- Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Gabriel Minárik
- Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Peter de Knijff
- Department of Human Genetics, Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Krzysztof Rębała
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
Joanna Wysocka
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
Ewa Kapińska
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
Lidia Cybulska
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
Alexei I. Mikulich
- Institute for the Study of Arts, Ethnography and Folklore, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus
Iosif S. Tsybovsky
- Institute of Problems of Criminology, Criminalistics and Forensic Expertise, Minsk, Belarus
Zofia Szczerkowska
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
Paweł Krajewski
- Medical University in Warsaw, Department of Medical Genetics, Department of Forensic Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
Rafał Ploski
- Medical University in Warsaw, Department of Medical Genetics, Department of Forensic Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
- Corresponding author at: Medical University in Warsaw, Department of Medical Genetics, 02-007 Warsaw, Poland. Tel.: +48 22 628 39 00; fax: +48 22 628 63 04.

Received 2 June 2007; received in revised form 2 February 2008; accepted 13 February 2008. published online 31 March 2008.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the homogeneity of Polish populations with respect to STRs chosen as core markers of the Polish Forensic National DNA Intelligence Database, and to provide reference allele frequencies and to explore the genetic interrelationship between Poland and neighboring countries. The allele frequency distribution of 10 STRs included in the SGMplus kit was analyzed among 2176 unrelated individuals from 6 regional Polish populations and among 4321 individuals from Germany (three samples), Austria, The Netherlands, Sweden, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation (six samples). The statistical approach consisted of AMOVA, calculation of pairwise Rst values and analysis by multidimensional scaling. We found homogeneity of present day Poland and consistent differences between Polish and German populations which contrasted with relative similarities between Russian and German populations. These discrepancies between genetic and geographic distances were confirmed by analysis of an independent data set on Y chromosome STRs. Migrations of Goths, Viking influences, German settlements in the region of Volga river and/or forced population resettlements and other events related to World War II are the historic events which might have caused these finding.

Keywords: STR, Forensic, Population, Germany, Russia, Poland