Table 2

Minimum STRPa densities required for Scan applications

APPLICATION
MINIMUM NUMBERS OF STRPS

Gender determination
10
Family tree construction
10
Individual identification
10
Chimerism discovery
100
Aneusomy detection
500
Uniparental disomy detection
500
Autozygosity determination
500
Inbreeding measurement
500
Linkage mapping
500
Geoancestry estimation
500
Haplotype determination
500
Propagation of genetic information
1000
Genotyping error detection
1000
Association mapping
2000

a A rough estimate of the equivalent numbers of diallelic polymorphisms can be obtained by multiplying the numbers of STRPs by 4.

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