This page is designed to find whole or partial matches to a single STR profile that you provide. The program will generate output showing you the original (target) profile that you provided, and all the matching profiles, their source databases and their i.d. numbers. This utility will not work with mixed samples. It will only search for matches to a single profile. In some cases with mixed samples the laboratories report a major or minor contributor that they treat as if it were a single profile. This utility can search for matches to those types of profiles but keep in mind that this is almost never they proper way to analyze mixed samples. (See the STR mixture utility) To use this utility please follow the steps listed below.

1. For each of the 13 loci listed below choose from the list of alleles the allele observed in your profile. Remember that for each genetic marker there will be two alleles. If the report only lists a single allele assume the individual is a homozygote, meaning they have two copies of this allele. Thus, you would enter that single allele twice. If you have no test results for a genetic marker listed below choose a ? for the two alleles at that genetic marker. The software will ignore this locus when looking for matches. If your profile has an allele that is not listed choose a ?. This will effectively eliminate that locus from the search. In all likelihood an allele not listed here is very rare in the databases I have.

2. Choose the number of matching loci you would like to see reported. Thus, if you choose 4 you will get a list of all profiles that matched your profile at 4 or more loci. The exact number of matching loci will be given for each profile.

3. After you have specified the entire profile click on submit. It should take only a short time to produce output, but be patient predicting the time it takes computer operations to finish on the internet is difficult at best.

The databases that will be checked include the following: FBI (Black, Caucasian, Southwest Hispanic, Bahamas, Trinidad, Jamaica); Perkin Elmer (Black, Caucasian); Washoe County, Nevada (Black, Caucasian, Hispanic); Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Minnesota (Black, Caucasian, Hispanic, Indian); SERI, California (Black, Caucasian, Hispanic); Australia (Caucasian); Florida Department of Law Enforcement (Black, Caucasian); Metro-Dade, Florida (Black, Caucasian, Hispanic); Center for Forensic Science, Canada (Eastasian, Asian, Black, Caucasian); Royal Canadian Mounted Police (North Ontario, Caucasian, Sasskatchewan, Salishan). Alaskan Athabaskan; Kansas City (Black, Caucasian, Hispanic); Genescreen (Black, Caucasian, Hispanic); Palm Beach (Black, Caucasian, Hispanic). The total number of people in all databases is greater than 23,000, although not all of these have complete profiles. [last updated 10/28/03]

The line that says "profile number = xxx" is the number of profiles in that database that have complete genetic profiles at the loci in your target profile. This number is added with the others to get the "total number of people with a complete set of genetic data at the genes in your target". This information can be used if you want to compute the counting method on only a subset of the databases. To get counting method estimates from the results of this utility goto the counting method utility