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High-throughput carrier screening using TaqMan allelic discrimination.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Fedick Anastasia, Su Jing, Jalas Chaim, Northrop Lesley, Devkota Batsal, Ekstein Josef, Treff Nathan R
Abstract excerpt
Members of the Ashkenazi Jewish community are at an increased risk for inheritance of numerous genetic diseases such that carrier screening is medically recommended. This paper describes the development and evaluation of 30 TaqMan allelic discrimination qPCR assays for 29 mutations on 2 different high-throughput platforms. Four of these mutations are in the GBA gene and are successfully examined using short...
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