ANALYSIS OF THE VNTR LOCUS D1S80 IN A JAPANESE POPULATION

A population study on the VNTR locus D1S80 was carried out in a sample of 377 unrelated Japanese individuals living in and around Gifu Prefe cture (central region of Japan). A total of 29 different alleles was d istinguished. Alleles 18, 24 and 30 were found to be the 3 most common alleles in this population sample and their frequencies were 0. 147, 0.200 and 0. 162, respectively. Out of the 435 possible phenotypes, 12 0 were observed. The observed heterozygosity was 0.88 and the power of discrimination was 0.98. No significant deviations from Hardy-Weinber g equilibrium could be found in this Japanese population sample.