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Texas population substructure and its impact on estimating the rarity of Y STR haplotypes from DNA evidence*.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Sept 2009
Budowle Bruce, Ge Jianye, Aranda Xavier G, Planz John V, Eisenberg Arthur J, Chakraborty Ranajit
Abstract excerpt
Three sampled populations of unrelated males--African American, Caucasian, and Hispanic, all from Texas-were typed for 16 Y short tandem repeat (STR) markers using the AmpFlSTR Yfiler kit. These samples also were typed previously for the 13 core CODIS autosomal STR loci. Most of the 16 marker haplotypes (2478 out of 2551 distinct haplotypes) were observed only once in the data sets. Haplotype diversities were...
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