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Genetic polymorphism of 15 STR loci in El Salvador

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The aim of this study was to estimate the allelic frequencies of the 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci included in AmpFlSTR®Identifiler® PCR Amplification Kit. Biological samples were obtained from 109 unrelated individuals from El Salvador. Allelic frequencies and forensic parameters were calculated. All loci showed no departure from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium after Bonferroni correction. The obtained frequencies were compared with other previously reported population data. The multidimensional scaling plot and the neighbor-joining phylogeny supported a high native Mesoamerican contribution.

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We would like to thank the Salvadorean Embassies at Madrid and Paris and also to those donors who gave the samples.

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  1. Laboratory of Forensic Genetics and Population Genetics, Department of Toxicology and Health Sanitary, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Pablo Muñoz, Eugenia Leticia Pinto de Erazo, Carlos Baeza, Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo & Ana Maria López-Parra

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Muñoz, P., Pinto de Erazo, E.L., Baeza, C. et al. Genetic polymorphism of 15 STR loci in El Salvador. Int J Legal Med 129, 991–993 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-015-1148-8

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