To the Editor: The diagnoses of these cases were based on cellulose acetate electrophoresis, isoelectric focusing, or direct sequencing of the entire globin genes. For the detection of Hb CS, two pairs of primers were used by alteration of the structure of one of the globin chains of the hefor PCR. The first pair of primers (upstream primer, 5’moglobin (Hb) molecule.’ The diagnosis of these dis...

We established a specific genotyping assay for HLA-A*01, which is one of the most frequently found HLA-A alleles in the Caucasian population. This assay uses the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with allele group-specific primers (ASP). HLA-A*01 group-specific primers were designed for exon 3 of the HLA-A gene, based on the recent HLA-sequence alignment. Both sense and anti-sense primers were de...

We develop a strategy for haplotype analysis of PCR products that contained two adjacent heterozygous loci using sequencing with specific primers, allele-specific primers, and ddNTP-blocked primers. To validate its feasibility, two sets of PCR products, including two adjacent heterozygous SNPs, UGT1A1⁎6 (rs4148323) and UGT1A1⁎28 (rs8175347), and two adjacent heterozygous SNPs, K1637K (rs1117601...

The role of 3' exonuclease excision in DNA polymerization was evaluated for primer extension using inert allele specific primers with exonuclease-digestible ddNMP at their 3' termini. Efficient primer extension was observed in amplicons where the inert allele specific primers and their corresponding templates were mismatched. However, no primer-extended products were yielded by matched amplicon...

DNA mutations underlie the pathology of inherited disease. The spectrum of genetic changes resulting in disease is diverse, often encompassing both point (single-nucleotide) and length (large deletions) mutations: cystic fibrosis (2) and the muscular dystrophies (10) are classic examples. Similarly, mutational events implicated in carcinogenesis include both single nucleotide substitutions and ...

The ease and advantages of allelespecific PCR (AS-PCR) for SNP genotyping, along with the difficulty of assay specificity with certain mismatched DNA primers, have been described in prior studies (1–3). More recently, the use of real-time PCR detection formats has been described for one or both alleles of AS-PCR (4–6). These detection enhancement methods do not overcome the inherent difficultie...

association of satellite rna with cucumber mosaic virus (cmv) leads to either attenuation or enhancement of the viral symptoms. for detection of the satellite rnas in iranian isolates of cmv, plant samples showing viral symptoms were collected from different farms in the provinces of east- and west- azerbayjan and ardebil. these samples were inoculated onto the experimental host plants in green...