Diagnosis of sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia with enzymatically amplified DNA and nonradioactive allele-specific oligonucleotide probes

Autor: Corinne D. Boehm, Haig H. Kazazian, Tina C. Warren, Corey Levenson, Henry A. Erlich, Chu an Chang, Randall Keichi Saiki
Rok vydání: 1988
Předmět:
Zdroj: The New England journal of medicine. 319(9)
ISSN: 0028-4793
Popis: We have developed a simple and rapid nonradioactive method for detecting genetic variation and have applied it to the diagnosis of sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia. The procedure involves the selective amplification of a segment of the human beta-globin gene with oligonucleotide primers and a thermostable DNA polymerase, followed by hybridization of the amplified DNA with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes covalently labeled with horseradish peroxidase. The hybridized probes were detected with a simple colorimetric assay. We demonstrated the usefulness of this method in a retrospective analysis of two pregnancies at risk for beta-thalassemia and one at risk for sickle cell anemia, as well as in an analysis of nine DNA samples simulating three family sets.
Databáze: OpenAIRE