Genetic variation and population structure of Sudanese populations as indicated by 15 Identifiler sequence-tagged repeat (STR) loci

Table 3 Forensic summary statistics, observed and expected heterozygosity, deviation from Hardy-Weinberg-equilibrium (HWE), minimum allele frequency cut-off and sample size for each locus (n)

Locus	CSF1PO	D13S317	D16S539	D18S51	D19S433	D21S11	D2S1338	D3S1358	D5S818	D7S820	D8S1179	FGA	TH01	TPOX	vWA
n	485	489	491	485	491	491	489	490	490	485	491	486	490	491	491
MP^a	0.103	0.114	0.073	0.021	0.043	0.047	0.028	0.106	0.090	0.093	0.069	0.026	0.100	0.126	0.066
PD^b	0.897	0.886	0.927	0.979	0.957	0.953	0.972	0.894	0.91	0.907	0.931	0.974	0.9	0.874	0.934
PE^c	0.504	0.409	0.552	0.785	0.665	0.611	0.68	0.533	0.519	0.469	0.503	0.748	0.431	0.406	0.681
PIC^d	0.708	0.689	0.762	0.889	0.833	0.816	0.865	0.711	0.732	0.729	0.769	0.874	0.711	0.67	0.79
H_obs^e	0.746	0.687	0.774	0.895	0.833	0.804	0.843	0.763	0.755	0.726	0.745	0.877	0.702	0.684	0.841
H_exp^f	0.751	0.731	0.792	0.899	0.850	0.834	0.878	0.754	0.767	0.766	0.798	0.886	0.747	0.718	0.813
P^g	0.955	0.021	0.335	0.357	0.195	0.211	0.022	0.335	0.258	0.015	0.005	0.749	0.311	0.400	0.018
MAF^h	0.0052	0.0051	0.005	0.0052	0.005	0.005	0.0051	0.0051	0.0051	0.0052	0.005	0.0052	0.0051	0.005	0.005

^aMatching probability.
^bPower of discrimination.
^cPower of exclusion.
^dPolymorphism information content.
^eObserved heterozygosity.
^fExpected heterozygosity.
^gHWE, Fisher's exact test P-value executed with 100,000 steps in the Markov chain and 1,000 dememorization steps.
^hMinimum allele frequency cut-off (5/(2N)).

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