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Heteroduplex formation in SMN gene dosage analysis.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Nov 2001
Ogino S, Leonard D G, Rennert H, Gao S, Wilson R B
Abstract excerpt
Most spinal muscular atrophy patients lack both copies of SMN1 exon 7 and most carriers have only one copy of SMN1 exon 7. We investigated the effect of SMN1/SMN2 heteroduplex formation on SMN gene dosage analysis, which is an assay to determine copy number of SMN1 exon 7 that utilizes multiplex quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with DraI digestion to differentiate SMN1 from SMN2. Heteroduplex...
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