Similarities and differences between three Slavic populations on the basis of allelic frequencies for 15 STR loci

Abstract Allelic frequencies of 15 short tandem repeat (STR) markers (AmpF I STR ® Identifiler™) were analyzed using AmpF l STR ® Identifiler™ PCR Amplification Kit in Belarusian ( N =176) and Slovak ( N =164) individuals. No deviation from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium was found for all loci. These results were compared with data available for northern Poland and Belarusian minority residing in northeastern Poland [Z. Szczerkowska, E. Kapinska, J. Wysocka, L. Cybulska, Northern Polish population data and forensic usefulness of 15 autosomal STR loci, Forensic Sci. Int. 144 (2004) 69–71; W. Pepinski, A. Niemcunowicz-Janica, M. Skawrowska, E. Koc-Zorawska, J. Janica, I. Soltyszewski, Allele distribution of 15 STR loci in a population sample of Belarusian minority residing in the northeastern Poland, Forensic Sci. Int. 139 (2004) 265–267]. Statistically significant differences were observed between Belarusian [K. Rebala, J. Wysocka, E. Kapinska, L. Cybulska, A.I. Mikulich, I.S. Tsybovsky, Z. Szczerkowska, Belarusian population genetic database for 15 autosomal STR loci, Forensic Sci. Int. (2007), doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.02.002] and Slovak populations and other compared populations. The values of heterozygosity, polymorphic information content (PIC), power of discrimination (PD), power of exclusion (PE), paternity index (PI) and matching probability (pM) were calculated. The results demonstrated the forensic usefulness of the analyzed loci.