Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Abstract

Iraq is home to a diverse range of religious, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic minorities, each with unique genetic characteristics. The Hawrami (Gurani) ethnic groups, thought to be descendants of people from the Caspian Sea region, reside in provinces along the Iraq–Iran border. This study is the first to present DNA profiling of 110 healthy, unrelated individuals from the Hawrami population in Iraq. The study analyzed allele frequency distributions, allelic patterns, and forensic statistical parameters for 20 short tandem repeat loci, and variant alleles were identified. The findings of this research could be valuable for forensic applications and population comparisons as a baseline database for the Iraqi Hawrami population.

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Ulack

. Demography of race and ethnicity in Iraq, In: The International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity, Springer, Dordrecht, Dordrecht, 2015: pp. 367–384; doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-8891-8_19

Zarei

, Rajabi-Maham

. Phylogeography, genetic diversity and demographic history of the Iranian Kurdish groups based on mtDNA sequences. J Genet, 2016; 95(4):767–776; doi: 10.1007/S12041-016-0692-4/METRICS

Karami

, Gholami

. 2 Examining the structural differences and similarities between literary Gorani and Hawrami through the lens of diglossia, Gorani in Its Historical and Linguistic Context (2024) 45–96; doi: 10.1515/9783111168852-002

Sheyholislami

. Language and nation-building in Kurdistan-Iraq, school of linguistics and language studies, Carleton University, Canada (2009). Available from: http://www.uniraq.org/documents/iraqi_constitution.pdf [Last accessed: October 2, 2024].

Taucher-Mathias

, Webinger

V-P

. The Kurds, academia.Edu (2015). Available from: https://www.academia.edu/download/55248302/2015_languagevarietiesoftheKurds_sheyholislami.pdf [Last accessed: October 3, 2024].

Khaksar

, Hassani

. Shifting from endangerment to rebirth in the artificial intelligence age: An ensemble machine learning approach for Hawrami text classification, (2024). Available from: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16884v1 [Last accessed: October 3, 2024].

Gouy

, Zieger

. STRAF-A convenient online tool for STR data evaluation in forensic genetics. Forensic Sci Int Genet, 2017; 30:148–151; doi: 10.1016/J.FSIGEN.2017.07.007

Ristow

, D’Amato

. Forensic Statistics Analysis Toolbox (FORSTAT): A streamlined workflow for forensic statistics. Forensic Sci Int Genet Suppl Ser, 2017; 6(2017):e52–e54; doi: 10.1016/j.fsigss.2017.09.006

Peakall

, Smouse

. GenAlEx 6.5: Genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research-An update. Bioinformatics, 2012; 28(19):2537–2539; doi: 10.1093/BIOINFORMATICS/BTS460

10.

Ruitberg

, Reeder

, Butler

. STRBase: A short tandem repeat DNA database for the human identity testing community. Nucleic Acids Res, 2001; 29(1):320–322; doi: 10.1093/NAR/29.1.320

11.

Farhan

, Hadi

, Iyengar

, Goodwin

. Population genetic data for 20 autosomal STR loci in an Iraqi Arab population: Application to the identification of human remains. Forensic Sci Int Genet, 2016; 25:e10–e11; doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.07.017

12.

Hameed

, Ommer

, Murad

, Mohammed

. Allele frequency data of 21 autosomal short tandem repeat loci in Mesan and Basra provinces in South Iraq. Egypt J Forensic Sci, 2015; 5(4):150–156; doi: 10.1016/J.EJFS.2014.10.003

13.

Stenersen

, Perchla

, Søvik

, Flønes

, Dupuy

. Kurdish (Iraq) and Somalian population data for 15 autosomal and 9 Y-chromosomal STR loci. Int Congr Ser, 2004; 1261:185–187; doi: 10.1016/S0531-5131(03)01823-5

14.

Murad

, Amin

. A microsatellite study for determination of allelic variation of Kurdish population-Kurdistan region-Iraq. AIP Conf Proc 1888, 2017:20036; doi: 10.1063/1.5004313/767709

Supplementary Material

Please find the following supplemental material available below.

For Open Access articles published under a Creative Commons License, all supplemental material carries the same license as the article it is associated with.

For non-Open Access articles published, all supplemental material carries a non-exclusive license, and permission requests for re-use of supplemental material or any part of supplemental material shall be sent directly to the copyright owner as specified in the copyright notice associated with the article.

0.00 MB

0.01 MB

A Novel DNA Dataset of 20 Forensic Autosomal STRs for the Hawrami Population in Iraq

Abstract

Get full access to this article

References

Supplementary Material