vWA

CODIS Core

vWA is a tetranucleotide short tandem repeat (STR) locus on chromosome 12 (12p13.31), one of the 20 CODIS core loci.

Basic Information

Chromosome

Cytogenetic Location

12p13.31

STRNaming template (FSSG)

GGAT[n]AGAT[1]GGAT[1]AGAT[n]AGAC[n]AGAT[2]

Type

Tetranucleotide

Alternative motifs (STRbase, historical notation)

[TAGA]n [CAGA]3-6 TAGA, [TGGA]0-1 [TAGA]3 TGGA [TAGA]3 [CAGA]4 TAGA CAGA TAGA rs75219269, [TAGA]n [CAGA]4 TAGA rs771794429 rs199970098

Reference Allele

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Genomic Coordinates

GRCh38/hg38

Repeat region

chr12:5,983,977-5,984,044 (68 bp)

GRCh37/hg19

Repeat region

chr12:6,093,143-6,093,210 (68 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)

GGAT[n]AGAT[1]GGAT[1]AGAT[n]AGAC[n]AGAT[2]

GGAT[n]AGAT[3]GGAT[1]AGAT[2]AGAC[4]AGAT[1]AGAC[1]AGAT[2]

GGAT[1]AGAT[1]GGAT[1]AGAT[n]AGAC[4]AGAT[2]

Reference allele (GRCh38) named with STRNaming 1.2.1

CE17_GGAT[3]AGAT[1]GGAT[1]AGAT[10]AGAC[5]AGAT[2]

Historical bracketing (2016-2023)

[TAGA]11 [CAGA]5 TAGA

ISFG minimum range (GRCh38)

chr12:5,983,954-5,984,049 (96 bp)

MPS kits covering this locus

PowerSeq 46GY (Does not cover the whole ISFG minimum range.)
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 (chr12:5,983,954-5,984,049), 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.

Notes from the FSSG

Originally characterized on the reverse strand

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 16 (0.291, n = 505)
Native American: Allele 16 (0.316, n = 545)
East Asia: Allele 17 (0.312, n = 226)
Central and South Asia: Allele 17 (0.306, n = 193)
Europe: Allele 17 (0.262, n = 2,103)
Middle East: Allele 16 (0.272, n = 160)
Oceania: Allele 16 (0.360, n = 25)

Allele frequencies by population group (pop.STR, CE). Alleles absent from every group are omitted.
Allele	AFR	NAM	EAS	CSA	EUR	MES	OCE
11	0.001	0.004	0	0	0.001	0	0
12	0	0	0	0	0.001	0	0
13	0	0.008	0	0	0.003	0	0.020
14	0.039	0.061	0.232	0.119	0.101	0.103	0
15	0.168	0.150	0.013	0.075	0.122	0.131	0.020
16	0.291	0.316	0.144	0.189	0.229	0.272	0.360
17	0.224	0.223	0.312	0.306	0.262	0.219	0.240
18	0.115	0.147	0.197	0.199	0.184	0.212	0.260
19	0.119	0.071	0.077	0.091	0.084	0.053	0.080
20	0.030	0.019	0.024	0.021	0.011	0.009	0.020
21	0.012	0.001	0	0	0.002	0	0
22	0.002	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 64 sequence variants across 12 allele designations.

Related markers

Other STR markers on chromosome 12

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