Extended polymorphism at STR-locus D5S818

Supplemented Data on Mutation Rates in 33 Autosomal Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphisms

“…Paternal mutations often occur more frequently than maternal ones (4), although it can be difficult to ascertain from which parent the mutant allele was inherited. This difficulty can often be solved by appropriate SNP analysis (5). …”

“…Mutations at primer‐binding sites causing null alleles (5) were not covered by this study, either. Decisions to interpret a deviation from the genetic pathway as a mutation were based on corrected (9) a posteriori probabilities of at least 99.999%.…”