Han population genetics

Nine polymorphic STR loci in the HLA region in the Shaanxi Han population of China

H. B. Zhang, Wei, S. G., Yu, B., Li, L., and Lai, J. H., Nine polymorphic STR loci in the HLA region in the Shaanxi Han population of China, vol. 11, pp. 2534-2538, 2012.

A large number of microsatellite genetic markers have been identified in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region. We investigated genetic polymorphism of the nine short tandem repeat (STR) loci (D6S276, MOGCA, D6S265, MIB, D6S273, G51152, TAP1CA, RING3CA, and D6S291) in the HLA region in the Shaanxi Han population. Using a fluorescence-labeled multiplex-PCR STR typing method, 6-13 alleles were detected in these nine STR loci in 150 unrelated Han Chinese from the region of Shaanxi, China. The distributions of the genotypes at these nine loci were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

Polymorphisms of three new microsatellite sites of the dystrophin gene

R. F. Sun, Zhu, Y. S., Feng, J. L., Tian, Z., Kuang, W. J., Liu, Y., Zhang, H. B., and Li, S. B., Polymorphisms of three new microsatellite sites of the dystrophin gene, vol. 10, pp. 744-751, 2011.

To look for novel microsatellites in the dystrophin gene for the diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, candidate microsatellite sites in the dystrophin gene were analyzed with the SSRHunter software and were also genotyped. Among the 15 candidate microsatellite sites, three novel microsatellite sites in the 60th, 30th, and 2nd intron were found to have a high degree of polymorphism. We submitted these three new loci to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, under accession Nos.

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