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Nonradioactive characterization of low-level heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA mutations by SSCP-PCR enrichment.
BioTechniques - 1 Mar 1996
Sherratt E J, Thomas A W, Gagg J W, Alcolado J C
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations have been implicated in an increasing number of human diseases. Many of these mutations are heteroplasmic and are only present at low levels in readily accessible human tissue such as blood. The technique of single-stranded conformational polymorphism (SSCP) allows the detection of mtDNA variants from peripheral blood, but characterization of these variants by automated...
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