A study of the short tandem repeat systems HUMVWA and HUMTH01 in an Austrian population sample
1Institut für Gerichtliche Medizin, Karl Franzens Universität Graz, Austria.
International Journal of Legal Medicine
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
The genotype distributions for the short tandem repeat systems (STRs) HUMVWA and HUMTH01 have been studied in 128 unrelated Caucasians fromêAustria. The allelic distributions were in accordance with Hardy-Weinberg expectations. The heterozygosities were 0.82 and 0.81, whereas the mean exclusion chance was 0.62 and 0.55, respectively. In one person, a VWA-allele consisting of 11 repeats was found.
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