Polymorphism of Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Loci PLA2, D3S2459, D8S315 (kw38), CYP19, D3S1359, FGA, and D8S1132 in the Japanese and Chinese Populations
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PING HE, MASAYUKI NATA, JUN KANETAKE, GUIJIN JI, WEI YAN,1 XIANJUN LI2 and KAORU SAGISAKA
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Department of Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai 980-77, 1Liaoning Criminal Scientific and Technical Research Institute, Shenyang, and 2Traffic Police Detachment of Public Security Bureau of Shenyang City, Shenyang, P. R. China
We report a study of polymorphism for seven short tandem repeat (STR) loci in Japanese and Chinese populations. Among 104 to 134 individuals in the both population samples, eight alleles were revealed for locus PLA2, thirteen for D3S1359, eleven for FGA, eight for D8S315 (kw38), ten for D8S1132, five for CYP19, and seven for D3S2459. They correspondingly constituted 10 to 39 genotypes therein. For most of the STRs, there was only a single allele active as the most frequent one among the others, except locus D3S1359 in Chinese samples (two alleles, 206 bp and 210 bp, frequency = 0.273 each). Also, the population genotype configurations were locus specific, varying in the patterns of commonest genotypes on each locus, e.g., one pattern for loci CYP19, D3S1359, and D8S315, one and two for loci PLA2 and D3S2459, two for locus D8S1132, and one and four for locus FGA. The distributions of observed genotypes were in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium. Furthermore, the seven STRs were exhibited highly polymorphic and informative for the both populations, and the alleles could be easily separated in electrophoresis and correctly interpreted with side-to-side allelic ladders. Together, the results suggest that the tri- and tetra-meric STRs are useful genetic markers, for forensic practice.
Key words---
DNA polymorphism; short tandem repeat (STR); genotyping; Japanese; Chinese
© 1997 Tohoku University Medical Press
Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1997, 183, 251-262
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