Japanese and Korean Population Data on Three STR Polymorphic Markeres; D3S1358, vWA and FGA

2 ( Received 9 August 2000; 10 October 2000 ) Allele frequency distributions of the D3S1358, vWA and FGA loci were determined in the Japanese and the Korean populations using AmpFlSTR TM Blue triplex system. All three loci in the Korean population and the vWA and FGA loci in the Japanese population met the Hardy  Weinberg equilibrium expectation, except the D3S1358 locus in the Japanese population (p ＝ 0.01). However, the D3S1358 departure from the Hardy  Weinberg equilibrium was no longer signiˆcant when using the conventional chi  square test. Allele frequency distributions of the D3S1358 and vWA loci in the Japanese population were not signiˆcantly diŠerent from those of the Korean population. The allele