D2S441

CODIS Core

D2S441 is a tetranucleotide short tandem repeat (STR) locus on chromosome 2 (2p14), one of the 20 CODIS core loci.

Basic Information

Chromosome

Cytogenetic Location

2p14

STRNaming template (FSSG)

TCTA[n]

Type

Tetranucleotide

Alternative motifs (STRbase, historical notation)

[TCTA]n TTTA [TCTA]2, [TCTA]n TCTG TCTA, [TCTA]n TCA [TCTA]n, [TCTA]n rs74640515

Reference Allele

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Genomic Coordinates

GRCh38/hg38

Repeat region

chr2:68,011,947-68,011,994 (48 bp)

GRCh37/hg19

Repeat region

chr2:68,239,079-68,239,126 (48 bp)

Motif and sequences are shown on the forward (+) strand of GRCh38.

Sequence structure (FSSG)

ISFG minimum range, bracketing and kit coverage from the Forensic Sequence Structure Guide, FSSG v6.1 (STRidER; distributed as FSSG_v6-1_beta.xlsx).

STRNaming Formatted ISFG Minimum Range for Common Alleles (FSSG)

TCTA[n]

TCTA[n]TTTA[1]TCTA[2]

TCTA[n]TCTG[1]TCTA[1]

TCTA[n]TCA[1]TCTA[n]

Reference allele (GRCh38) named with STRNaming 1.2.1

CE12_TCTA[12]

Historical bracketing (2016-2023)

[TCTA]12

ISFG minimum range (GRCh38)

chr2:68,011,943-68,011,999 (57 bp)

MPS kits covering this locus

PowerSeq 46GY
ForenSeq Signature Prep/Plus and MainstAY
Precision ID GlobalFiler NGS STR Panel v2
IDSeek OmniSTR Global (Does not cover the whole ISFG minimum range.)

Kit range does not cover the whole ISFG minimum range of this locus (chr2:68,011,943-68,011,999), according to the kit ranges in the FSSG. Bases of the minimum range outside a kit's range are not sequenced by that kit; bases filled in from the reference should be identified as such.

Allele frequencies at a glance

Most common allele per population group, with its frequency and the sample size, in the capillary electrophoresis data of pop.STR / SP-SMART.

Africa: Allele 11 (0.319, n = 102)
Native American: Allele 11 (0.320, n = 546)
East Asia: Allele 11 (0.389, n = 226)
Central and South Asia: Allele 11 (0.455, n = 200)
Europe: Allele 11 (0.325, n = 1,819)
Middle East: Allele 14 (0.368, n = 151)
Oceania: Allele 10 (0.729, n = 24)

Allele frequencies by population group (pop.STR, CE). Alleles absent from every group are omitted.
Allele	AFR	NAM	EAS	CSA	EUR	MES	OCE
8	0.005	0	0	0.003	0.001	0	0.042
9	0.005	0.005	0.009	0	0.002	0.003	0
9.1	0	0	0	0	0.002	0	0
10	0.029	0.229	0.217	0.220	0.209	0.113	0.729
11	0.319	0.320	0.389	0.455	0.325	0.334	0.146
11.3	0.093	0.045	0.049	0.043	0.053	0.073	0
12	0.142	0.103	0.157	0.065	0.091	0.050	0.083
12.3	0.088	0.001	0	0	0.004	0	0
13	0.044	0.043	0.035	0.022	0.037	0.036	0
13.3	0.020	0.005	0.002	0.003	0.003	0	0
14	0.225	0.223	0.135	0.160	0.232	0.368	0
14.3	0	0.001	0	0	0	0	0
15	0.025	0.024	0.007	0.030	0.036	0.020	0
16	0	0.003	0	0	0.004	0.003	0
17	0.005	0	0	0	0	0	0

Allele frequencies by population group (pop.STR, CE). Alleles absent from every group are omitted.

Variant Alleles

STRbase reports 48 sequence variants across 18 allele designations.

9.1

9.3

10.1

11.3

12.3

13.3

14.3

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