Autosomal microsatellite allele frequencies for 15 regionally defined Aboriginal Australian population datasets

Population data from the New South Wales Aboriginal Australian sub-population for the profiler plus autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci

“…These alleles were off-ladder incomplete alleles in the upper range of the repeat region (notably ''38.2s''). Similar findings have been observed in other Australian populations [5][6][7][8]11]. Further molecular analysis of the variant alleles observed in the Western Australian Aboriginal dataset [12] revealed a structural conformation (allele type V) that had previously only been observed in samples from a Papuan population [13].…”

Analysis of the South Australian Aboriginal population using the Global AIMs Nano ancestry test

“…Because informed consent was not possible to attain for these samples (they had been previously deidentified according to the Act), we believe their ethical use is implied under clause 32 of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Assignment of each individual to a region used location of residence or location of offence for which the individual was arrested (if the location of residence was not available), as per [10,14]. This manner of region assignment had limitations (namely the fact that the residence or crime of an individual is not necessarily in the same geographical location as their ancestors) but has shown to be an approximation that is fit for purpose.…”

“…Four of these Aboriginal regions (Desert, Eyre, Spencer and Riverine) and an urbanised population in the capital city of Adelaide, fall within the state of South Australia (Figure 1, left). Phylogenetic analyses of South Australian self-declared Aboriginal and European individuals using autosomal STRs [10,11], Y-chromosome STRs [12,13] and Y-chromosome SNPs [4,14], while acting on different areas of the DNA with different modes of inheritance, speak to a common picture of contemporary Aboriginal people ( Figure 1). Those in remote areas, such as the Desert region, have a less admixed genetic history and so appear more genetically divergent from Europeans.…”