[Genetic variability and discriminating power of four microsatellite loci in Russian population].

Allele and genotype frequencies of 4 STR loci (LPL, vWA, FES/FPS H F 13B), used in forensic medicine, were analyzed in Russian Siberian population. Genetic and molecular diversity of these polymorphic systems were characterized in comparison with US Caucasoid population. High discriminating power (PD = 0.

[Allele distribution at the HVR-IgH hypervariable locus in unrelated individuals living in the Ural, Siberia, and northern Kazakhstan].

Allelic polymorphism at a hypervariable locus mapped to the 5'-region of the gene cluster encoding JH segments of human immunoglobulin heavy chain H (IgH-VNTR) was typed in 462 unrelated individuals living in the Urals, Siberia, and Northern Kazakhstan. Molecular characteristics of the three previously unknown IgH-VNTR alleles is presented. The observed genotype frequencies were concordant with those expected under the Hardy-Weinberg distribution.