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Genetic Structure and Forensic Feature of 38 X-Chromosome InDels in the Henan Han Chinese Population.

ABSTRACT: Insertion/deletion (InDel) polymorphisms, as ideal forensic markers, show useful characteristics of both SNPs and STRs, such as low mutation rate, short amplicon size and general applicability of genotyping platform, and have been used in human identification, population genetics and biogeographic research in recent years. X-chromosome genetic markers are significant in population genetic studies and indispensable complements in some complex forensic cases. However, the population genetic studies of X-chromosome InDel polymorphisms (X-InDels) still need to be explored. In this study, the forensic utility of a novel panel including 38 X-InDel markers was evaluated in a sample of Han population from Henan province in China. It is observed that the heterozygosities ranged from 0.0054 to 0.6133, and the combined discrimination power was 1-9.18 × 10^-17 for males and 1-7.22 × 10^-12 for females respectively. The mean exclusion chance in trios and duos were 0.999999319 and 0.999802969 respectively. Multiple biostatistics methods, such as principal component analysis, genetic distances analysis, phylogenetic reconstruction, and structure analysis was used to reveal the genetic relationships among the studied Henan Han group and other 26 reference groups from 1,000 Genomes Project. As expected, the Henan Han population was clustered with East Asian populations, and the most intimate genetic relationships existed in three Han Chinese populations from Henan, Beijing and South China, and showed significant differences compared with other continental groups. These results confirmed the suitability of the 38 X-InDel markers both in individual identification and parentage testing in Han Chinese population, and simultaneously showed the potential application in population genetics.

SUBMITTER: Zhang L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8762224 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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