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Population data of 23 autosomal STR loci in Hong Kong Chinese. 2019

Sze-Wah Lin, and Tze-Tsun Lam, and Stephen C Y Ip

Forensic Science Division, Government Laboratory, Homantin Government Offices, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address: swlin@govtlab.gov.hk.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D005787	Gene Frequency	The proportion of one particular in the total of all ALLELES for one genetic locus in a breeding POPULATION.	Allele Frequency,Genetic Equilibrium,Equilibrium, Genetic,Allele Frequencies,Frequencies, Allele,Frequencies, Gene,Frequency, Allele,Frequency, Gene,Gene Frequencies
D005828	Genetics, Population	The discipline studying genetic composition of populations and effects of factors such as GENETIC SELECTION, population size, MUTATION, migration, and GENETIC DRIFT on the frequencies of various GENOTYPES and PHENOTYPES using a variety of GENETIC TECHNIQUES.	Population Genetics
D006723	Hong Kong	The former British crown colony located off the southeast coast of China, comprised of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula, and New Territories. The three sites were ceded to the British by the Chinese respectively in 1841, 1860, and 1898. Hong Kong reverted to China in July 1997. The name represents the Cantonese pronunciation of the Chinese xianggang, fragrant port, from xiang, perfume and gang, port or harbor, with reference to its currents sweetened by fresh water from a river west of it.	Kowloon,New Territories,Hongkong
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016133	Polymerase Chain Reaction	In vitro method for producing large amounts of specific DNA or RNA fragments of defined length and sequence from small amounts of short oligonucleotide flanking sequences (primers). The essential steps include thermal denaturation of the double-stranded target molecules, annealing of the primers to their complementary sequences, and extension of the annealed primers by enzymatic synthesis with DNA polymerase. The reaction is efficient, specific, and extremely sensitive. Uses for the reaction include disease diagnosis, detection of difficult-to-isolate pathogens, mutation analysis, genetic testing, DNA sequencing, and analyzing evolutionary relationships.	Anchored PCR,Inverse PCR,Nested PCR,PCR,Anchored Polymerase Chain Reaction,Inverse Polymerase Chain Reaction,Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction,PCR, Anchored,PCR, Inverse,PCR, Nested,Polymerase Chain Reactions,Reaction, Polymerase Chain,Reactions, Polymerase Chain
D016172	DNA Fingerprinting	A technique for identifying individuals of a species that is based on the uniqueness of their DNA sequence. Uniqueness is determined by identifying which combination of allelic variations occur in the individual at a statistically relevant number of different loci. In forensic studies, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM of multiple, highly polymorphic VNTR LOCI or MICROSATELLITE REPEAT loci are analyzed. The number of loci used for the profile depends on the ALLELE FREQUENCY in the population.	DNA Fingerprints,DNA Profiling,DNA Typing,Genetic Fingerprinting,DNA Fingerprint,DNA Fingerprintings,DNA Profilings,DNA Typings,Fingerprint, DNA,Fingerprinting, DNA,Fingerprinting, Genetic,Fingerprintings, DNA,Fingerprintings, Genetic,Fingerprints, DNA,Genetic Fingerprintings,Profiling, DNA,Typing, DNA,Typings, DNA
D044466	Asian People	Persons having origins in any of the Asian racial groups of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. Note that OMB category ASIAN is available for United States population groups. Race and ethnicity terms, as used in the federal government, are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.	Asian Continental Ancestry Group,Asian Person,Asiatic Race,Mongoloid Race,Asian Peoples,Asian Persons,Asiatic Races,Mongoloid Races,People, Asian,Person, Asian,Race, Asiatic,Race, Mongoloid
D018895	Microsatellite Repeats	A variety of simple repeat sequences that are distributed throughout the GENOME. They are characterized by a short repeat unit of 2-8 basepairs that is repeated up to 100 times. They are also known as short tandem repeats (STRs).	Microsatellite Markers,Pentanucleotide Repeats,Simple Repetitive Sequence,Tetranucleotide Repeats,Microsatellites,Short Tandem Repeats,Simple Sequence Repeats,Marker, Microsatellite,Markers, Microsatellite,Microsatellite,Microsatellite Marker,Microsatellite Repeat,Pentanucleotide Repeat,Repeat, Microsatellite,Repeat, Pentanucleotide,Repeat, Short Tandem,Repeat, Simple Sequence,Repeat, Tetranucleotide,Repeats, Microsatellite,Repeats, Pentanucleotide,Repeats, Short Tandem,Repeats, Simple Sequence,Repeats, Tetranucleotide,Repetitive Sequence, Simple,Repetitive Sequences, Simple,Sequence Repeat, Simple,Sequence Repeats, Simple,Sequence, Simple Repetitive,Sequences, Simple Repetitive,Short Tandem Repeat,Simple Repetitive Sequences,Simple Sequence Repeat,Tandem Repeat, Short,Tandem Repeats, Short,Tetranucleotide Repeat