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

Allele frequency distributions of the D3S1358, vWA and FGA loci were determined in the Japanese and the Korean populations using AmpFlSTRTM 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 significant when using the conventional chi-square test. Allele frequency distributions of the D3S1358 and vWA loci in the Japanese population were not significantly different from those of the Korean population. The allele distribution of the Japanese data was similar to other previously reported Japanese data.