Under the Uniform Securities Act, the limited registration provision available to Canadian broker-dealers and their agents permit such broker-dealers to conduct businesses with interested people who reside in Canada; in addition, broker-dealers can also conduct businesses with Canadians who plan to reside in the state on a temporary basis, and whom they were already familiar with, prior to the time they came to the United States.
The number of repeats within an STR is referred to as an allele. For instance, the STR known as D7S820, found on chromosome 7, contains between 5 and 16 repeats of GATA. Therefore, there are 12 different alleles possible for the D7S820 STR.