Analysis of 16 autosomal STRs and 17 Y-STRs in an indigenous Maya population from Guatemala

Abstract

The aim of this study was to contribute new data on autosomal STR and Y-STR markers of the Mayas from Guatemala in order to improve available databases of forensic interest. We analyzed 16 autosomal STR markers in a population sample of 155 indigenous Maya and 17 Y-chromosomal STR markers in the 100 males of the sample. Deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and linkage disequilibrium between autosomal STR markers were not observed at any loci. The combined power of exclusion was estimated as 99.9991% and the combined power of discrimination was >99.999999999999%. Haplotype diversity of Y-STRs was calculated as 0.9984 ± 0.0018 and analysis of pairwise genetic distances (Rst) supported the Native American background of the population.

RETRACTED: Forensic characteristics and phylogenetic analyses of one branch of Tai‐Kadai language‐speaking Hainan Hlai (Ha Hlai) via 23 autosomal STRs included in the Huaxia™ Platinum System

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Genetic diversity, structure, and admixture in Mayans from Guatemala and Mexico based on 15 short tandem repeats

“…Despite the large number of studies in Latin American populations, a limited number of forensic STR databases representing the different Mayan groups from Guatemala have been generated (Cardoso et al, 2016; Martínez‐Espin et al, 2006; Martínez‐González et al, 2012; Martínez‐González et al, 2016; Stephenson‐Ojea et al, 2019). In fact, a number of Guatemalan Mayan groups remains unstudied, and the existing STR databases have not been fully exploited to obtain relevant anthropological information.…”