Allele frequency database for GlobalFiler™ STR loci in Australian and New Zealand populations

Duncan Taylor; Jo-Anne Bright; Catherine McGovern; Sharon Neville; Denise Grover

doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.02.012

Allele frequency database for GlobalFiler™ STR loci in Australian and New Zealand populations

Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2017 May:28:e38-e40. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.02.012. Epub 2017 Feb 27.

Authors

Duncan Taylor¹, Jo-Anne Bright², Catherine McGovern², Sharon Neville³, Denise Grover⁴

Affiliations

¹ Forensic Science South Australia, 21 Divett Place, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100 Adelaide SA 5001, Australia. Electronic address: Duncan.Taylor@sa.gov.au.
² ESR Limited, Private Bag 92021 Auckland New Zealand.
³ NSW Forensic & Analytical Science Service, NSW Health Pathology, Joseph St, Lidcombe NSW 2141, Australia.
⁴ Forensic Science Branch NT Police, Peter McAulay Centre, Berrimah, PO Box 39764, Winnellie NT 0821, Australia.

PMID: 28291712
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.02.012

Abstract

We assign autosomal allele proportions for Caucasian, Asian, self-declared Aboriginal and pure Aboriginal populations from Australia and Caucasian and Eastern and Western Polynesian populations from New Zealand. Population sample sizes vary from 122 to 528. All populations underwent tests for the presence of allelic dependencies (i.e. departures from the expectations of Hardy Weinberg and Linkage equilibrium) and some large dependencies were observed in the Australian Aboriginal populations. We provide allele frequency files for all populations examined.

Keywords: Aboriginal; Allele frequency; Asian; Australian; Caucasian; GlobalFiler(®); New Zealand; Polynesian.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Australia
Chromosomes, Human, Y
DNA Fingerprinting
Databases, Genetic*
Ethnicity / genetics
Gene Frequency*
Genetics, Population*
Humans
New Zealand
Racial Groups / genetics