Use of capillary electrophoresis for accurate determination of CAG repeats causing Huntington disease. An oligonucleotide design avoiding shadow bands

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 577-584

  Blanco, Sonia ^a   Suarez, Antonio ^a   Gandia Pla, Sandra ^b   Gómez Llorente, Carolina ^a   Antúnez, Adelaida ^b   Gómez Capilla, Jose Antonio ^a   Fárez Vidal, M Esther ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capillary electrophoresis; Huntington's disease; Molecular diagnostic techniques; Polymerase chain reaction; Trinucleotide repeat expansion

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; AUTOMATION; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FAMILY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SAMPLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 55249123452     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: 15027686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365510801915171     Document Type: Article

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