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Genetic Variant Detection in the CALR gene using High Resolution Melting Analysis
Published on: August 26, 2020
Y-STR genetic diversity of Croatian (Bayash) Roma
Kristina Pokupcić1, Slavena Cukrov, Irena Martinović Klarić
1Forensic Centre Ivan Vucetić, General Police Directorate, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Ilica 335, Zagreb, Croatia.
Abstract:
Seventeen Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (STRs) (DYS19, DYS385, DYS389I, DYS398II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, DYS448, DYS456, DYS458, DYS635, GATA H4.1) were typed in DNA samples from 146 unrelated adult Romani Bayash men from eastern and northwestern Croatia. Analysed Croatian Bayash Romani population represents an example of genetically homogenous population characterised by low levels of haplotype diversity and unique haplotype ratio as well as sharing of the same most frequent (founding) haplotype and its close derivatives by more than one third of the analyzed men. Despite almost exclusive sharing of the same minimal haplotype and its closely related derivates on the background of the Indian Y SNP haplogroup H1, we observed considerable level of genetic differentiation of Romani populations across Europe that should not be neglected in forensic statistics.
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