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Study of Indel genetic markers with forensic interest and ancestry informative power in PALOP’s immigrant populations in Lisboa - preliminary results
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Abstract(s)
The increasing number of immigrants in Portugal is an unavoidable reality. According to Portugal Contemporary Base - PORDATA -, by the end of 2013, the foreign population living in Portugal was about 398.268, i.e., about 4% of the total population. The total number of immigrants from Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP) was about 100.800, from which 20.000 were from Angola, 42.000 from Cabo Verde, 176.600 from Guiné-Bissau, 2.850 from Moçambique and 10.170
from São Tomé e Príncipe. From those 100.800, about 75.000 are part of Lisboa population.
The migratory phenomenon in Portugal can be one of the main factors for the genetic variability.
In the last years, a new class of autosomal insertion/deletion markers - InDel -, has gained interest in forensic genetics. They are characterized by the presence or absence of a specific sequence of
nucleotides. Significative differences in allele frequencies of InDel markers, between different groups or populations, can be used as evolutionary and ancestry indicators.
Since there is few data for InDel markers of PALOP immigrants living in Lisboa, our aim is to characterize those groups of individuals by typing them with, at least, 30 markers and compare different groups of individuals/populations.
Description
Poster apresentado na 9th ISABS Conference on Forensic and Anthropologic Genetics and Mayo Clinic Lectures in Individualized Medicine, Bol, Island of Brač, Croatia, June 22-26, 2015
Keywords
Indel Genetic Markers Palop's immigration population Lisboa