A one-step real-time multiplex PCR for screening Y-chromosomal microdeletions without downstream amplicon size analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kozina, Viviana ^a   Cappallo Obermann, Heike ^b   Gromoll, Jörg ^c   Spiess, Andrej Nikolai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING DYE; DYE; EVAGREEN; SYBRGREEN I DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; PRIMER DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MARKER GENE; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME MICRODELETION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DNA DENATURATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 80051920719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023174     Document Type: Article

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