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The genetic polymorphism of 17 autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci included in the PowerPlex® 18D System was evaluated from 638 unrelated healthy Han individuals of Meizhou in Guangdong Province, Southern China. The values of combined power of discrimination (CPD) and the combined probability of exclusion (CPE) were observed as 0.999999999999999 and 0.999999933. Penta E showed the highest values of polymorphism information content (0.9073), expected heterozygosity (0.9147), and observed heterozygosity (0.9373), whereas TPOX showed the lowest (0.5373, 0.6035, and 0.6082). Furthermore, both of the PCA plot and neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree showed that the Meizhou Hakka population has a relatively close genetic relationship with the Guangdong Han population. The results showed that most of these 17 autosomal STR loci were highly informative and can be effective for forensic individual identification and paternity testing in Meizhou Hakka population.
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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81971798) and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2019A15150).
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Han, X., Shen, A., Yao, T. et al. Genetic diversity of 17 autosomal STR loci in Meizhou Hakka population. Int J Legal Med 135, 443–444 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02253-9
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