Heterozygous 21 STR Loci and Triplet Alleles Observed in Population Genetic Analysis of the GlobalFiler STR loci in the Ghanaian population

This study profiled 1,047 volunteers using the GlobalFiler ™ Kit from the four main ethnic groups in Ghana: the Akan (282), Mole-Dagomba and Northern ethnic minority (253), Ewe (250) and Ga-Dangbe (262), representing about 98.4% ethnic coverage of the Ghanaian population.The polymorphic nature of the African population was demonstrated during the profilin g of the reference data set with the occurrence of some rare triplet variant alleles. At the TPOX locus, three tri-allelic were found with the allelic patterns 6-8-10, 8-9-10 and 9-10-11.

Source: Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series - October 21, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Pet-Paul Wepeba, Arati Iyengar, William Goodwin Source Type: research