interferon gamma (ifn-g) is a cytokine produced by activated t lymphocytes and natural killer cells. it plays an important role in innate and adaptive immunity. ifn-g gene is polymorphic and its haplotype has been associated with resistance to nematode infestations which are the most important parasites of domestic sheep worldwide. to evaluate ifn-g polymorphism in iranian shaul sheep populatio...

Periodontitis has been associated with the presence of Porphyromonas gingivalis, and previous studies have shown phenotypic differences in the pathogenicities of strains of P. gingivalis. An accurate and comprehensive phylogeny of strains of P. gingivalis would be useful in determining if there is an evolutionary basis to pathogenicity in this species. Previous phylogenies of P. gingivalis stra...

The genomes of temperate Salmonella typhimurium phages P22 and L share approximately 69% homology, as measured by DNA heteroduplex analysis. Alignment of the P22/L heteroduplex molecules with a P22 physical map places most of this homology between the capsid genes and genes in the vicinity of the prophage attachment sites. The degree of genetic relatedness between these phages and the lambdoid ...

We describe an improved, fast, automated method for screening large genes such as BRCA2 for germline genomic mutations. The method is based on heteroduplex analysis, and has been adapted for a high throughput application by combining the fluorescent technology of automated sequencers and robotic sample handling. This novel approach allows the entire BRCA2 gene to be screened with appropriate ov...

The possibility to detect markers of T-cell clonality at the T-cell receptor (TCR) beta and gamma loci in skin biopsy samples has proven to be helpful for the often difficult clinical and immunohistochemical diagnosis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). However, particularly at the early stage of the neoplastic infiltration, an emerging clonal pattern at Southern may be obscured by the germlin...

Electron microscopic heteroduplex analysis of avian RNA tumor viruses has been undertaken by using 35S viral RNA and long, complementary DNA synthesized in vitro. In this initial study, heteroduplex molecules were formed between complementary DNA from Rous sarcoma virus [Prague B strain (Pr-B)] and RNAs from Pr-B and Rous sarcoma virus [Prague C strain (Pr-C)] and from their transformation defe...

A variety of methods have been developed to screen for genetic mutations. Most rely on the comparative analysis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products. Single-strand conformational polymorphism (4), the most widely used technique, relies on sequence-dependent conformational electrophoretic mobility differences between wild-type (WT) and mutant strands; whereas, heteroduplex analysis (5,8),...

BACKGROUND: DNA self-assembly methods have played a major role in enabling methods for acquiring genetic information without having to resort to sequencing, a relatively slow and costly procedure. However, even self-assembly processes tend to be very slow when they rely upon diffusion on a large scale. Miniaturisation and integration therefore hold the promise of greatly increasing this speed o...

BACKGROUND The presence of a dominant T-cell clone is an important diagnostic criterion in cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCLs) and in atypical T-cell cutaneous infiltrates. Procedures based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are the most sensitive to detect clonality, but heteroduplex analysis is less sensitive than other methods such as denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. OBJECTIVE To as...