forensim (version 2.0)

strusa: Allele frequencies for 15 autosomal short tandem repeats core loci on U.S. Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic populations.

Description

Allele frequencies for 15 autosomal short tandem repeats loci on three American populations : Caucasians, African Americans and Hispanics. Among the 15 loci, 13 belong to the core Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) loci used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA), in forensic DNA analysis, and two supplementary loci are more commonly used in Europe, see details.

Usage

data(strusa)

encoding

UTF-8

format

strusa is a tabfreq object giving allele frequencies of 15 loci in three American populations.

Details

CSF1PO, FGA, TH01, TPOX, vWA, D3S1358, D5S818, D7S820, D8S1179, D13S317, D16S539, D18S51 and D21S11, belong to the core CODIS loci used in the US, whereas D2S1338 and D19S433 belong to the European core loci.

References

Butler JM, Reeder DJ. http://www.cstl.nist.gov/strbase/index.htm, last visited: May 11th 2009 Butler JM, Schoske R, Vallone MP, Redman JW, Kline MC. Allele frequencies for 15 autosomal STR loci on U.S. Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic populations. J Forensic Sci 2003;48(8):908-911.

Examples

data(strusa)
strusa
#genotypes simulations from each population
geno<- simugeno(strusa,n=c(100,100,100))
geno
#3-person mixture simulation with the contributors from the 3 populations
mix3<- simumix(geno,ncontri=c(1,1,1))
mix3