Jewish population genetic data in 20 polymorphic loci
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Antònia Picornell1, Carmen Tomàs, Gema Jiménez
1Laboratori de Genètica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Cra. Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain. apicornell@uib.es
Abstract:
Frequency data of 20 polymorphisms (13 autosomal and 6 Y-chromosome STRs and the Alu-insertion YAP) were determined in a sample of 124 unrelated Jewish individuals from Ashkenazi, Sephardic, North African and Oriental origin. The a priori statistical power of the set of studied loci was highly discriminating (PD=1 in 2.393 E+15 individuals for autosomal STRs, and a probability of finding two unrelated males with the same haplotype of less than 0.01). Some significant population differences were registered between Jews and other Circummediterranean populations in Y-chromosome loci frequencies.
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