Northern Polish population data and forensic usefulness of 15 autosomal STR loci.

Allele frequencies for the 15 STR loci in the AmpF/STR Identifiler kit (Applied Biosystems): D8S1179, D21S11, D7S820, CSF1PO, D3S1358, TH01, D13S539, D2S1338, D19S433, VWA, TPOX, D18S51, D5S818, and FGA were determined in a sample of 145 unrelated individuals living in the northern part of Poland. The values of heterozygosity, polymorphic information content (PIC), power of discrimination (PD), power of exclusion (PE), paternity index (PI) and matching probability (pM)were calculated.