Analysis of an “off-ladder” allele at the Penta D short tandem repeat locus
“Analysis of an “off-ladder” allele at the Penta D short tandem repeat locus”, vol. 14, pp. 15096-15101, 2015.
, Kinship testing of a father and his son from Guangxi, China, the location of the Zhuang minority people, was performed using the PowerPlex® 18D System with a short tandem repeat typing kit. The results indicated that both the father and his son had an off-ladder allele at the Penta D locus, with a genetic size larger than that of the maximal standard allelic ladder. To further identify this locus, monogenic amplification, gene cloning, and genetic sequencing were performed.