2014
Volume 14, Number 3, pp. 64–70
Allele frequencies for 19 autosomal STR loci of two ethnic groups of Georgia and their use for personal identity testing in forensic medicine
N. Chikovani, T. Aphakidze and M. Bostoganashvili
Laboratory of Genetic Research, St Andrew I University of the Patriarchate of Georgia, Tbilisi
The highly polymorphic autosomal STR loci have been studied for allele frequencies in two ethnic groups—the Laz subpopulation, living in the Black Sea coastal regions of south-western Georgia and north-eastern Turkey, and the Imeretians, living in the central Georgian region. A common set of 19 standardized locus markers—D3S1358, D5S818, D7S820, D8S1179, D13S317, D16S539, D18S51, D21S11, CSF1PO, FGA, TH01, TPOX, vWA, D2S441, D10S11248, D12S391, D22S1045, D1S1656 and SE33—were investigated. All the loci except one (SE33) were in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. Comparative analysis of allele frequency distributions of the Laz and the Imeretian populations revealed statistically significant differences for most of the loci.