Sofia Antão-Sousa, Leonor Gusmão, Nidia M Modesti, Sofía Feliziani, Marisa Faustino, Valeria Marcucci, Claudia Sarapura, Julyana Ribeiro, Elizeu Carvalho, Vania Pereira, Carmen Tomas, Marian M de Pancorbo, Miriam Baeta, Rashed Alghafri, Reem Almheiri, Juan José Builes, Nair Gouveia, German Burgos, Maria de Lurdes Pontes, Adriana Ibarra, Claudia Vieira da Silva, Rukhsana Parveen, Marc Benitez, António Amorim, Nadia Pinto
The Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Working Group of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (GHEP-ISFG) organized a collaborative study on mutations of Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STRs). New data from 2225 father-son duos and data from 44 previously published reports, corresponding to 25,729 duos, were collected and analyzed. Marker-specific mutation rates were estimated for 33 Y-STRs. Although highly dependent on the analyzed marker, mutations compatible with the gain or loss of a single repeat were 23...
December 14, 2023: Forensic Science International. Genetics