Genetic data of 10 X-STR in an Afro-descendant population sample of the Department of Chocó—Colombia

Genetic data of 10 X-STRs in a population sample of the Tunja city, Department of Boyacá-Colombia

“…Due to the presence of several loci with intermediate alleles, the genetic distances were calculated according to the number of different alleles (Fst) rather than by the sum of squared size differences (Rst), in accordance with Pereira et al [16]. Statistically significant distances were found between the City of Tunja and all other populations compared [3][4][5][12][13][14][15], except for the population of Nicaragua (p = 0.018). After the Bonferroni correction, the significance value was p ≤ 0.005.…”

“…The markers used preferentially in forensic practice, especially in paternity testing and biological relationships, are the STRs located on the autosomal chromosomes (A-STRs). However, in the last two decades has increased worldwide the use of STRs linked to the X chromosome (X-STRs), especially when the A-STRs are insufficient, and in cases of kinship analysis when the offspring is a female [1][2][3][4][5][6].…”