L.A. Zhivotovsky, et al., An STR database on the Volga-Ural population, Forensic Sci. Int. Genet. (2008),
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This work develops a reference STR database on the Volga-Ural population, Russia, comprised of 640
individuals that were sampled from eight ethnic groups (Finno-Ugric Mari, Mordva-Moksha, Mordva-
Erzja, Komi-Permjak, and Udmurt, and Turkic-speaking Bashkir, Tatar-Mishary, and Chuvash) and typed
with 10 autosomal STR markers: TH01, CSF1P0, FGA, vWA, D3S1358, TPOX, D16S539, D8S1179,
D13S317, FES. The groups differentiate in allele frequencies, and therefore we computed u-values
between allele frequencies in each ethnic groups and those in the database as a measure of their
differentiation. Nevertheless, the Volga-Ural ethnic groups form a relatively compact cluster that greatly
deviate from the Romanic Moldovans and the Turkic Yakuts, taken for comparison, and are closer to the
Slavic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians, although significantly differ from those as well.
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