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Short tandem repeat polymorphism evolution in humans.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jan 1998
Calafell F, Shuster A, Speed W C, Kidd J R, Kidd K K
Abstract excerpt
Forty-five dinucleotide short tandem repeat polymorphisms were typed in ten large samples of a globally distributed set of populations. Although these markers had been selected for high heterozygosity in European populations, we found them to be sufficiently informative for linkage analysis in non-Europeans. Heterozygosity, mean number of alleles, and mean number of private alleles followed a common trend: they...
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