Erschienen in:
01.01.2010 | Technical Note
Validation of six closely linked STRs located in the chromosome X centromere region
verfasst von:
Jeanett Edelmann, Sandra Hering, Christa Augustin, Stefan Kalis, Reinhard Szibor
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Legal Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2010
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Abstract
We propose that clusters of closely linked markers, which segregate as stable haplotypes, provide a high potential to solve complex kinship cases. It is known that the X-chromosomal centromere region shows an extremely low degree of recombination. Hence, we focused our interest on the region between 56 and 64 Mb distant from the Xp telomere and considered 6 STRs which are now registered in the Genome Data Base as DXS10161, DXS10159, DXS10162, DXS10163, DXS10164, and DXS10165. All of these markers show a tetranucleotide or pentanucleotide structure and exhibit high or medium polymorphic information content. As a peculiarity, DXS10163 is a combination of a pentanucleotide STR and an 18 bp INDEL polymorphism. We report here the primer sequences, the repeat structures, the allele distributions and parameters of forensic interest for a German population sample.