Announcement of population data Allele frequencies for the 13 CODIS STR loci in Peru Lizandrina Pe ´rez a,* , Jorge Hau a , Fe ´lix Izarra a , Oscar Ochoa a , Ursula Zubiate a , Oscar Garcı ´a b a Laboratorio de Biologı ´a Molecular—ADN Forense, Direccio ´n de Criminalı ´stica de la Policı ´a Nacional de Peru ´, Lima 34, Peru b Area de Laboratorio Ertzaintza, Avda. Montevideo 3, E-48002 Bilbao, Spain Received 21 November 2002; received in revised form 16 December 2002; accepted 18 December 2002 Population: Unrelated Peruvian donors from Lima, Huancayo, Iquitos, Piura and Huaraz cities. N: 100. Extraction: Samples were placed on FTA R paper (What- man BioScience) and the immobilized DNA washed accord- ing to the manufacturer’s recommendations. PCR: The complete PCR amplification mix is added directly to the tube containing one punch dried of diameter 2.0 mm of target DNA following manufacturer’s instructions (AmpF‘STR Profiler Plus and AmpF‘STR COfiler PCR amplification kits—PE Applied Biosystems). Typing: ABI310 and reference sequenced ladders (PE Applied Biosystem). Analysis of data: PowerStats [1] and GDA [2]. Access to the data: adndircri@pnp.gob.pe. Other remarks: Linkage disequilibrium has been tested using shuffling test for all possible combinations between loci obtaining an exact probability upper than 0.05 indicat- ing independence of loci in all cases. This paper follows the guidelines for publication of population data requested by the journal [3]. Forensic Science International 132 (2003) 164–165 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: adndircri@pnp.gob.pe (L. Pe ´rez), gobies01@sarenet.es (O. Garcı ´a). 0379-0738/03/$ – see front matter # 2003 Published by Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. doi:10.1016/S0379-0738(03)00009-4