Allele frequencies of 15 short tandem repeats (STRs) in three Egyptian populations of different ethnic groups

Clotilde Coudray; Evelyne Guitard; Farha el-Chennawi; Georges Larrouy; Jean-Michel Dugoujon

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.03.017

Allele frequencies of 15 short tandem repeats (STRs) in three Egyptian populations of different ethnic groups

Forensic Sci Int. 2007 Jul 4;169(2-3):260-5. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.03.017. Epub 2006 May 4.

Authors

Clotilde Coudray¹, Evelyne Guitard, Farha el-Chennawi, Georges Larrouy, Jean-Michel Dugoujon

Affiliation

¹ Anthropology Centre, CNRS FRE 2960, 37 allées Jules Guesde, 31073 Toulouse, France.

PMID: 16678370
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.03.017

Abstract

DNA typing of 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci included in the AmpFlSTR Identifiler PCR amplification kit (Applied Biosystems), was carried out in three Egyptian populations of different ethnic groups: the Berbers from the Siwa oasis (in the North-Western Egyptian desert), the Muslims and the Copts from Adaima (Upper Egypt). A total of 297 individuals were typed. After Bonferroni's correction, no deviations from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were observed for all samples at the 15 STR loci. All loci are highly polymorphic and population differentiation tests showed that 7, 10 and 8 out of 15 loci have significant differences between the Berbers and the Muslim samples, between the Berbers and the Copts, and between the two samples from Adaima, respectively. Comparative analyses between our population data and other geographically related populations gathered from the literature were performed.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

DNA Fingerprinting
Egypt
Ethnicity / genetics*
Gene Frequency*
Genetics, Population*
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Tandem Repeat Sequences*