UKDNA17freqs: UK DNA-17 Allele Frequency Data for 16 STR Loci

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UK DNA-17 Allele Frequency Data for 16 STR Loci

Description

A dataset containing allele frequencies for 16 autosomal STR loci from the UK Population dataset. Frequencies are provided for four population groups: "White_-_EA1_&_EA2", "Black_African_&_Caribbean_-_EA3", "Indian_-_EA4" and "Chinese_-_EA5".

Usage

UKDNA17freqs

Format

A named list of length 4.

Each element is itself a named list of 16 STR loci, with named numeric vectors of allele frequencies.

Details

Each population group is a named list of 16 elements, where each element corresponds to a specific STR locus (e.g., D3S1358, vWA, FGA, etc.). Each locus is represented as a named numeric vector:

• Names: allele values (as character strings, e.g., "12", "14.2")

• Values: allele frequencies for that population group

An attribute "N" is attached to each population list, specifying the sample size (number of alleles) for each locus.

Source

Raw data on which the data set is based is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dna-population-data-to-support-the-implementation-of-national-dna-database-dna-17-profiling under the Open Government licence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Examples

# Access allele frequencies for D3S1358 in the Indian_-_EA4 population
UKDNA17freqs$`Indian_-_EA4`$D3S1358

# Frequency of allele "15" at D3S1358 in the Indian_-_EA4 population
UKDNA17freqs$`Indian_-_EA4`$D3S1358["15"]

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