Abstract Objective The NUDT15 variants impact thiopurine dose selection in acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients. ability to rapidly detect is important clinical practice. This study aims develop a simple polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure for detecting Vietnamese Materials and Methods Sanger sequencing was used determine from 200 We designed primers optimized the PCR detection of wild-t...

Molecular diagnostics has changed the way lung cancer patients are treated worldwide. Of several different testing methods available, PCR followed by directed sequencing and amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS) are the two most commonly used diagnostic methods worldwide to detect mutations at exon 2 and kinase domain exons 18-21 in lung KRAS EGFR cancer. Compared to ARMS, the PCR fol...

Observations from human microbiome studies are often conflicting or inconclusive. Many factors likely contribute to these issues including small cohort sizes, sample collection, and handling and processing differences. The field of microbiome research is moving from 16S rDNA gene sequencing to a more comprehensive genomic and functional representation through whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of co...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as a method for preparing DNA templates has been used for several DNA sequencing applications. An in situ procedure for directly sequencing PCR products by the dideoxy-termination method has been developed by using fluorophore-labeled sequencing primers. Completed sequence reactions were combined and loaded into a single electrophoretic lane of a fluorescence-bas...

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is one of the most widely used techniques in molecular biology. In combination with High Throughput Sequencing (HTS), PCR is widely used to quantify transcript abundance for RNA-seq, and in the context of analysis of T and B cell receptor repertoires. In this study, we combine DNA barcoding with HTS to quantify PCR output from individual target molecules. We ...

BRAF codon 600 mutation testing of melanoma patients is mandatory for the choice of the most appropriate therapy in the clinical setting. Competitive allele specific TaqMan PCR (Cast-PCR) technology allows not only the selective amplification of minor alleles, but it also blocks the amplification of non-mutant allele. We genotyped codon 600 of the BRAF gene in 54 patients' samples by Cast-PCR a...

In this Article the Authors incorrectly stated that they had developed a novel method termed bisulfite amplicon sequencing (BSAS). The method was reported by Masser et al. (reference 18 in the Article). Thus the following sentence (which appears verbatim in ref. 18): " By combining the benefits of bisulfite conversion, targeted amplification, tagmentation-based library construction , and NGS, w...

Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) comprises 3 serogroups and 19 serovars. Different genotyping methods are available to differentiate between the serovars. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and discriminatory power of three genotyping methods, respectively Omp1 sequencing, the Ct Detection and genoTyping (DT) assay and the pmpH real-time PCR discriminating an LGV infection from a n...

Sandßies collectedbetweenApril 2003 andNovember 2004 atTallilAirBase, Iraq,were evaluated for the presence of Leishmania parasites using a combination of a real-time Leishmaniageneric polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay and sequencing of a 360-bp fragment of the glucose6-phosphate-isomerase (GPI)gene.A total of 2,505pools containing 26,574 sandßieswere testedusing the real-time PCR assay.Leis...

PCR is widely employed as the initial DNA amplification step for genetic testing and cancer biomarker detection. However, a key limitation of PCR-based methods, including real-time PCR, is the inability to selectively amplify low levels of variant alleles in a wild-type allele background. As a result, downstream assays are limited in their ability to identify subtle genetic changes that can hav...