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TaqMan-based real-time PCR for genotyping common polymorphisms of haptoglobin (HP1 and HP2).
Clinical chemistry - 1 Nov 2008
Soejima Mikiko, Koda Yoshiro
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The haptoglobin gene (HP) has 2 common codominant alleles (HP(1) and HP(2)) that account for 3 phenotypes. HP(2) is generated by a 1.7-kb intragenic duplication of HP(1). METHODS: We used the real-time TaqMan PCR system to develop an effective method for HP genotyping that allows us to evaluate the relative number of copies of the HP(2) allele-specific junctional region of the 1.7-kb gene duplication...
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