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Population study of Aymara Amerindians for the PCR-DNA polymorphisms HUMTH01, HUMVWA31A, D3S1358, D8S1179, D18S51,
1Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Legal Medicine Department, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain. mgene@medicina.ub.es
International Journal of Legal Medicine
|March 31, 2000
Abstract:
Allele and genotype frequencies for eight DNA polymorphisms (HUMTH01, HUMVWA31A, D3S1358, D8S1179, D18S51, D19S253, YNZ22 and HLA-DQalpha) were determined in a population sample of Aymara Indians from Bolivia using PCR. No deviations of the observed allelic frequencies from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were found for all the systems studied. Significant differences in the allele frequencies were found between the Aymara and Quechua populations only for HUMVWA31A, which suggests a certain degree of genetic differentiation between the two populations.