TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of a 49 InDel Marker HID panel in two specific populations of South America and one population of Northern Africa
AU - Moura-Neto, R. S.
AU - Silva, R.
AU - Mello, I. C.
AU - Nogueira, T.
AU - Al-Deib, A. A.
AU - LaRue, B.
AU - King, J.
AU - Budowle, B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by research grants from FAPERJ, CNPq, CAPES, and INMETRO.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2015/3
Y1 - 2015/3
N2 - The majority of STR loci are not ideal for the analysis of forensic samples with degraded and/or low template DNA. One alternative to overcome these limitations is the use of bi-allelic markers, which have low mutation rates and shorter amplicons. Human identification (HID) InDel marker panels have been described in several countries, including Brazil. The commercial kit available is, however, mostly suitable for Europeans, with lower discrimination power for other population groups. Recently, a combination of 49 InDel markers used in four different ethnic groups in the USA has been shown to be more informative than another panel from Portugal, already tested in a Rio de Janeiro sample. However, these 49 InDels have yet to be applied to other admixed or isolated populations. We assessed the efficiency of this panel in two urban admixed populations (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tripoli, Libya) and one isolated Native Brazilian community. All markers are in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) after the Bonferroni correction, and no Linkage disequilibrium was detected. Assuming loci independence and no substructure effect, cumulative RMP was 2.7×10−18, 1.5×10−20, and 4.5×10−20 for Native Brazilian, Rio de Janeiro, and Tripoli populations, respectively. The overall Fst value was 0.05512. Rio de Janeiro and Tripoli showed similar admixture levels, however for Native Brazilians one parental cluster represented over 60 % of the total parental population. We conclude that this panel is suitable for HID on these urban populations, but is less efficient for the isolated group.
AB - The majority of STR loci are not ideal for the analysis of forensic samples with degraded and/or low template DNA. One alternative to overcome these limitations is the use of bi-allelic markers, which have low mutation rates and shorter amplicons. Human identification (HID) InDel marker panels have been described in several countries, including Brazil. The commercial kit available is, however, mostly suitable for Europeans, with lower discrimination power for other population groups. Recently, a combination of 49 InDel markers used in four different ethnic groups in the USA has been shown to be more informative than another panel from Portugal, already tested in a Rio de Janeiro sample. However, these 49 InDels have yet to be applied to other admixed or isolated populations. We assessed the efficiency of this panel in two urban admixed populations (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tripoli, Libya) and one isolated Native Brazilian community. All markers are in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) after the Bonferroni correction, and no Linkage disequilibrium was detected. Assuming loci independence and no substructure effect, cumulative RMP was 2.7×10−18, 1.5×10−20, and 4.5×10−20 for Native Brazilian, Rio de Janeiro, and Tripoli populations, respectively. The overall Fst value was 0.05512. Rio de Janeiro and Tripoli showed similar admixture levels, however for Native Brazilians one parental cluster represented over 60 % of the total parental population. We conclude that this panel is suitable for HID on these urban populations, but is less efficient for the isolated group.
KW - Amerindian
KW - Brazil
KW - Forensic genetics
KW - Libya
KW - Rio de Janeiro
KW - Tripoli
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U2 - 10.1007/s00414-014-1137-3
DO - 10.1007/s00414-014-1137-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 25516412
AN - SCOPUS:84923247668
SN - 0937-9827
VL - 129
SP - 245
EP - 249
JO - International Journal of Legal Medicine
JF - International Journal of Legal Medicine
IS - 2
ER -