Abstract
The genotype polymorphism studies were carried out on two different populations: Eastern
Slovak Caucasian (138) and Romany (Gypsy) (138), both from the town of Presov, at
15 highly polymorphic short tandem repeats (STRs) loci. The selected kit PowerPlex® 16 system (Promega) included amelogenin, two penta-nucleotide repeats and 13 tetra-nucleotide
repeats.
The comparison of the allele frequencies between Eastern Slovak Caucasians and Romanies
has shown significant differences in the majority of the focused loci. The P-values of exact test for Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium probabilities, observed and expected
heterozygosity, matching probability, power of discrimination and exclusion, polymorphic
information content, typical paternity index, genetic diversity and the other population-genetic
indices were calculated.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 21, 2008
Accepted:
April 1,
2008
Received in revised form:
March 31,
2008
Received:
January 18,
2007
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