The ancient Yakuts: a population genetic enigma

This study is part of an ongoing project aiming at determining the ethnogenesis of an eastern Siberian ethnic group, the Yakuts, on the basis of archaeological excavations carried out over a period of 10 years in three regions of Yakutia: Central Yakutia, the Vilyuy River basin and the Verkhoyansk area. In this study, genetic analyses were carried out on skeletal remains from 130 individuals of unknown ancestry dated mainly from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century AD. Kinship studies were conducted using sets of commercially available autosomal and Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (STRs) along with hypervariable region I sequences of the mitochondrial DNA. An unexpected and intriguing finding of this work was that the uniparental marker systems did not always corroborate results from autosomal DNA analyses; in some cases, false-positive relationships were observed. These discrepancies revealed that 15 autosomal STR loci are not sufficient to discriminate between first degree relatives and more distantly related individuals in our ancient Yakut sample. The Y-STR analyses led to similar conclusions, because the current Y-STR panels provided the limited resolution of the paternal lineages.

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Efficiency of Tetrameric Short Tandem Repeats in Prestice Black-Pied Pig for Traceability and Parentity Testing

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ◽

10.11118/actaun201664020557 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 557-565

Author(s):

Irena Vrtková ◽

Štěpán Vrtek ◽

Lenka Falková

Keyword(s):

Information Content ◽

Polymorphism Information Content ◽

Short Tandem Repeats ◽

Tandem Repeats ◽

Genetic Resource ◽

Marker Panel ◽

Str Loci ◽

Related Individuals ◽

Crossbred Pigs ◽

Short Tandem

The main goal of the research was to evaluate suitability of 11 tetrameric STRs (Short Tandem Repeats) marker panel for the Prestice Black-Pied pig (PC) breed as the only genetic resource in the Czech Republic.The analysis was carried out in 522 breeding and slaughter PC individuals. We observed 94 alleles overall across whole 11 STR panel. The observed heterozygosityHOwas 0.677, the polymorphism information content (PIC) was in average 0.664 per locus. The probability of identity of two independent samples (PI) using all 11 STR loci was 4.037·10−11and the probability of identity related individuals (PISibs) was 8.315·10−5. The power of exclusion for loci combinations when both parents are known (P1), when only one of the parent is known (P2) and for two putative parents (P3) were 0.9996, 0.9899 and 0.9999. The efficiency of the 11 tetrameric STRs (Animaltype Pig kit) is higher in PC in comparison to commercial breeds and slaughter crossbred pigs. In genetic resource PC, the 11 STRs panel is usable for forensic purpose such parentity testing and traceability.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Abundant contribution of short tandem repeats to gene expression variation in humans.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.725994101.793513449 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Melanie Bahlo

Keyword(s):

Gene Expression ◽

Short Tandem Repeats ◽

Tandem Repeats ◽

Gene Expression Variation ◽

Expression Variation ◽

Short Tandem

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Identification of embryo-fetal cells in celomic fluid using morphological and short-tandem repeats analysis.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.726727769.793540302 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Eliezer Rachmilewitz ◽

Eitan Fibach

Keyword(s):

Short Tandem Repeats ◽

Tandem Repeats ◽

Fetal Cells ◽

Short Tandem

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Population Genetics of Y-Chromosome Short Tandem Repeats in Humans

Journal of Molecular Evolution ◽

10.1007/pl00006229 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 265-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Anna Pérez-Lezaun ◽

Francesc Calafell ◽

Mark Seielstad ◽

Eva Mateu ◽

David Comas ◽

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Keyword(s):

Population Genetics ◽

Y Chromosome ◽

Short Tandem Repeats ◽

Tandem Repeats ◽

Short Tandem

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Conditional Genotypic Probabilities for Microsatellite Loci

Genetics ◽

10.1093/genetics/155.4.1973 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 155 (4) ◽

pp. 1973-1980

Author(s):

Jinko Graham ◽

James Curran ◽

B S Weir

Keyword(s):

Short Tandem Repeats ◽

Tandem Repeats ◽

Dirichlet Distribution ◽

Forensic Dna ◽

Match Probability ◽

Microsatellite Genotype ◽

Allelic State ◽

Forensic Assessments ◽

Dna Profiles ◽

Short Tandem

Abstract Modern forensic DNA profiles are constructed using microsatellites, short tandem repeats of 2–5 bases. In the absence of genetic data on a crime-specific subpopulation, one tool for evaluating profile evidence is the match probability. The match probability is the conditional probability that a random person would have the profile of interest given that the suspect has it and that these people are different members of the same subpopulation. One issue in evaluating the match probability is population differentiation, which can induce coancestry among subpopulation members. Forensic assessments that ignore coancestry typically overstate the strength of evidence against the suspect. Theory has been developed to account for coancestry; assumptions include a steady-state population and a mutation model in which the allelic state after a mutation event is independent of the prior state. Under these assumptions, the joint allelic probabilities within a subpopulation may be approximated by the moments of a Dirichlet distribution. We investigate the adequacy of this approximation for profiled loci that mutate according to a generalized stepwise model. Simulations suggest that the Dirichlet theory can still overstate the evidence against a suspect with a common microsatellite genotype. However, Dirichlet-based estimators were less biased than the product-rule estimator, which ignores coancestry.

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