Independence of VNTR alleles defined as fixed bins
Journal Article
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· Genetics; (United States)
OSTI ID:7182447
- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
An analysis is presented of data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at six unlinked variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) loci for the US population. Databases have been constructed of VNTR profiles of Caucasians, Blacks and Hispanics from Florida, Texas and California. There was very little evidence for correlations between lengths for pairs of VNTR fragments, within or between loci. When the fragment lengths were amalgamated into discrete bins, there was also little evidence for disequilibrium over all genotypes, within or between loci, for the Caucasian database, although some disequilibrium was found for the Black and Hispanic databases. No disequilibrium was found for the Caucasian or Black databases when tests were confined to heterozygous individuals. In cases of global disequilibrium, local tests can be applied to specific genotypes. The results suggest that, at the bin level, frequencies of VNTR profiles can generally be estimated as the products of the frequencies of the constituent elements. This overcomes the problem of estimating population frequencies when any particular profile does not exist in the database. There is some evidence for different frequencies, at the individual bin level, between geographic samples within each of the Caucasian, Black and Hispanic databases, and considerable evidence for differences between the three databases. These differences are less evident for the frequencies of four-locus profiles. 31 refs., 2 figs., 12 tabs.
- OSTI ID:
- 7182447
- Journal Information:
- Genetics; (United States), Journal Name: Genetics; (United States) Vol. 130; ISSN GENTAE; ISSN 0016-6731
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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