Biodiversity is facing an unprecedented crisis and substantial efforts are needed to conserve natural populations, especially in river ecosystems. The use of molecular tools guide conservation practices rivers has grown popularity over the last decades, but amount precision and/or biological information that would be gained by switching from traditional short tandem repeats (STRs) increasingly ...

background: the variable numbers of tandem-repeat (vntr) alleles at the phenylalanine hydroxylase (pah) gene have been used in carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis in phenylketonuria families. this study was carried out to analyze vntr alleles at the pah gene in iranian azeri turkish population. methods: in this study, 200 alleles from general population were studied by pcr. results: the fr...

Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) are frequent entities in many transcripts, however, in some cases, pathological events occur when a critical repeat length is reached. This phenomenon is observed in various neurological disorders, such as myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome, C9orf72-related amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (C9ALS/FTD)...

INTRODUCTION All eukaryotic genomes contain regions of simple repetitive DNA, called short tandem repeats (STR*) or microsatellites, which consist of tandem repeats of a small number of bases (1-3). The number of repeats at a STR locus can be highly variable among individuals, resulting in length polymorphisms that can be detected by relatively simple PCR-based assays. Thousands of these highly...

Microsatellites, also known as simple sequence repeats (SSRs) or short tandem repeats (STRs), have extensively been exploited as molecular markers for diverse applications. Recently, their role in gene regulation and genome evolution has also been discussed widely. We have developed UgMicroSatdb (Unigene MicroSatellite database), a web-based relational database of microsatellites present in uni...

Precise knowledge of mutation rate at Y-STRs loci is essential for a correct evaluation of typing results in forensic casework and specially kinship genetic studies. In this study, we have examined 252 confirmed and unrelated father/son sample pairs from Moroccan population using the 17 Y-STR markers DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS385a, DYS385b, DYS437, DYS438, DYS...

In the present study, genotyping of six short tandem repeat (STR) loci including CSF1PO, D16S539, F13A01, F13B, LPL and HPRTB was performed on genomic DNA from 127 unrelated individuals from the Iranian province of Isfahan. The results indicated that the allele and genotype distributions were in accordance with Hardy-Weinberg expectations. The observed heterozygosity (Ho), expected heterozygosi...