RFLP AND STR POLYMORPHISMS IN A SWISS MOUNTAIN POPULATION

In the Swiss Alps the inhabitants live to some extent in geographically separated regions and can form relatively isolated poulation groups. It has been assumed that such mountain populations would have different allele distributions from those observed in the general Swiss population. In order to determine if such differences exist approximately 200 unrelated individuals of a mountain region in the Rhone Vallely called Goms were examined. The 4 RFLP loci D12S11, D7S21, D7S22 and D2S44 and the 3 STR systems SE33, HUMTHO1 and D21 S11 were analyzed and compared with a general Swiss Population sample.