Allele frequencies and forensic parameters for the six miniSTR loci D1S1677, D2S441, D4S2364, D10S1248, D14S1434, and D22S1045 were investigated in a sample of 142 unrelated healthy Japanese individuals. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products contained within the six loci were less than 119 bp in size. The frequency distributions in the six short tandem repeat (STR) loci showed no deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium expectations. The accumulated powers of discrimination and power of exclusion for the six loci were 0.999998 and 0.98, respectively. It was thus considered that due to the small PCR products and the moderate degree of polymorphism, analysis with use of the six miniSTR loci was highly beneficial for the forensic analysis of degraded DNA.
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