Research Article

Analysis of Mutation Rate of 17 Y-Chromosome Short Tandem Repeats Loci Using Tanzanian Father-Son Paired Samples

Table 2

Mutation count, mutation rate and 95% confidence interval (CI) for the 17 Y-STRs loci studied using Tanzanian father-son paired samples.

LociRepetitive DNA sequenceaMutation countAllele transmissionMutation rate 95 CI

DYS19CTAT/CTAC017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS389IAAGG/GAAA017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS389IICTGT/CTAT117005.88x10−41.5x10−5 – 3.273x10−3
DYS390CTGT/CTAT017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS391CTGT/CTAT017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS392ATT017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS393GATA017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS385a AAGG217001.176x10−31.43x10−4– 4.243x10−3
DYS385bGAAA117005.88x10−41.5x10−5 – 3.273x10−3
DYS438 TTTTC/TTTTA017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS439 GATA017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS437TCTA/TCTG017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS448 AGAGAT017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS458 GAAA017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS456 AGAT017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
DYS635 TCTA/TGTA017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
Y GATA H4TAGA017000.0000.000 – 2.168x10−3
Average4 1 7002.353x10-36.41x10-4 - 6.013x10-3