Genotyping of the hemochromatosis HFE p.H63D and p.C282Y mutations by high-resolution melting with the Rotor-Gene 6000 ® instrument

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1633-1636

  Junior Lima Santos, Paulo Caleb ^a   Gadi Soares, Renata Alonso ^a   Krieger, Jose Eduardo ^a   Guerra Shinohara, Elvira Maria ^a   Pereira, Alexandre Costa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

hemochromatosis; HFE; high resolution melting

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HFE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VALIDATION STUDY; WILD TYPE;

GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 80054903877     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.654     Document Type: Article

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