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Published on: July 15, 2011
Population study of six short tandem repeat loci in Antalya, Turkey
Sema Demircin1, Yasar Mustafa Karagoz
1Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical Faculty, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. adlitip@med.akdeniz.edu.tr
Abstract:
Population studies of six short tandem repeat loci were carried out in a sample of unrelated Turkish individuals living in Antalya province, southwest Turkey. After electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels, 8 alleles could be identified for THO1, 6 for TPOX and CSF1PO, 9 for VWA, 7 for FES, and 14 for F13A01. There was a significant deviation from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium between observed and expected values for FES and TPOX loci.

