Table 1.

Population compiled for database of five forensic STR loci

S.No.	Populations	No. of samples analyzed *
		TPOX	FES	vWA	F13A	Tho1
1	Basque	768	627	615	208	859
2	Poland	703	643	572	334	488
3	Germany	2876	7683	13667	3438	7373
4	Italy	11388	4827	7135	1677	4900
5	Portugal	1239	2091	4720	1158	4639
6	Spain	1782	2325	3361	1864	4037
7	Canadian Caucasians	435	321	428	435	435
8	Middle Eastern Arabs	165	132	149	127	173
9	US Caucasian	562	597	759	587	765
10	Slovenia	235	235	779	236	560
11	Austria	153	153	1946	1056	1816
12	China	658	435	1146	137	2503
13	Japan	1491	397	1743	668	2905
14	Philippine	498	103	376	133	528
15	Taiwan	716	100	600	149	764
16	Sharawasi Africans	59	59	99	59	59
17	Cameroon	65	65	65	65	65
18	Moroccan Arabs	127	199	193	75	271
19	Lisongo Africans	32	60	30	30	30
20	US Afro-Americans	580	679	797	691	793
21	North Indian Hindus **	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000

Source of data:* http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MedFak/Serology/database.html [9]

** Present study