Effect of unexpected sequence interruptions to conventional PCR and repeat primed PCR in myotonic dystrophy type 1 testing

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-51

  Radvansky, Jan ^a   Ficek, Andrej ^a   Minarik, Gabriel ^a   Palffy, Roland ^a   Kadasi, Ludevit ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

CTG repeats; mobility shift; myotonic dystrophy type 1; sequence interruptions; TP PCR

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DMPK GENE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE; HUMAN; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TRIPLET REPEAT PRIMED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA BREAKS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79952127787     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PDM.0b013e3181efe290     Document Type: Article

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