JAPANESE POPULATION DNA TYPING DATA FOR THE LOCI LDLR, GYPA, HBGG, D7S8, AND GC

Population studies on the five loci LDLR, GYPA, HBGG, D7S8, and GC (PM loci) were carried out in a sample of 366 unrelated Japanese individu als living in Gifu Prefecture (central region of Japan) using the Ampl iType(R) PM PCR Amplification and Typing kit (Perkin Elmer). For all l oci, no significant deviations from Hardy-Weinbeg equilibrium could be found in our Japanese population sample. The combined mean exclusion chance and power of discrimination for the PM loci were 0.68 and 0.993 , respectively. The Japanese and Chinese population data were similar for the all loci. The Japanese and Korean population data were similar for all loci other than D7S8. Significant differences were observed b etween the Japanese population data and the 16 other population data c ompared for 3 loci or more.