Forensic parameters and admixture in seven geographical regions of the Guerrero state (South, Mexico) based on STRs of the Globalfiler kit.

BACKGROUND

New commercial STR kits have emerged with greater numbers of markers, which allows for obtaining stronger conclusions in forensic casework, which has been poorly studied in Mexico.

AIM

To obtain forensic parameters and to analyse the genetic relationships, structure and admixture in seven geographic regions of Guerrero state (South, Mexico) based on the Globalfiler kit.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS

A total of 245 unrelated Mexican individuals from seven regions of the state of Guerrero were analysed with the Globalfiler kit. Forensic parameters, pairwise comparisons, genetic distances, structure analysis and admixture levels were estimated.

RESULTS

Allele frequencies and forensic parameters of 22 STRs were estimated in this Mexican population sample. The combined power of exclusion and power of discrimination values were > 99.9999% and >99.99999999%, respectively. The Native American, European and African ancestries estimated in the Guerrero state population were 70.9%, 25.9% and 3.2%, respectively.

CONCLUSION

Forensic validation of the Globalfiler kit was performed in the Guerrero state population. The geographic isolation level seems to be the principal factor in defining genetic relationships and admixture among the Guerrero sub-populations. Despite the intrinsic limitations of STRs for admixture analysis, these results are very close to previous values based on AIMs and genome-wide SNPs.