A study on ten short tandem repeat systems: African immigrant and Spanish population data

This work presents the results obtained from a genetic-population study for the D1S1656 system in the population of Southwest Spain (Huelva, Cadiz and Sevilla), Spaniards of Caucasian origin from North Africa (Ceuta), as well as in the black Central West African and Moroccan immigrant populations in Spain. The results of a study of the autochtonous population of the Canary Islands (n = 138), and immigrant Central West African populations in Spain (n = 132), obtained for nine short tandem repeat (STR) loci (D3S1358, VWA, FGA, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D5S818, D13S317, D7S820), as well as the ame logenin locus, all contained in Profiler Plus(TM) (Perkin-Elmer) PCR amplif ication kits, are also presented. Except for the FGA and VWA data on immigr ant Central West African populations in Spain, no deviations from the Hardy -Weinberg equilibrium were detected. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.