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Accurate guanine:cytosine discrimination in T4 DNA ligase-based single nucleotide polymorphism analysis using an
Seung Pil Pack1, Akihiro Doi, Yoo Seong Choi
1Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Korea University, Jochiwon, Chungnam, Republic of Korea. spack@korea.ac.kr
Abstract:
T4 DNA ligase-based mismatch detection methods have been proposed as useful strategies for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analyses. However, there is a critical problem for cytosine/thymine (C/T) SNP analyses: guanine:thymine (G:T) mismatch is not distinguished from guanine:cytosine (G:C). Here we employed chemically modified nucleobases, such as oxanine and hypoxanthine, at the end of a ligation fragment and analyzed their influence on the ligation efficiency between G:C and G:T. Successful ligation for G:C and no ligation for G:T were observed when oxanine was employed adjacent to guanine in the ligation junction. This ligation method using an oxanine-containing fragment has strong potentials for the accurate analysis of C/T SNPs.
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