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Employing Digital Droplet PCR to Detect BRAF V600E Mutations in Formalin-fixed Paraffin-embedded Reference Standard Cell Lines
Published on: October 8, 2015
A novel RFLP-ARMS TaqMan PCR-based method for detecting the BRAF V600E mutation in melanoma
Yunqing Zhang1, Shoufang Qu2, Jinyin Zhao3
1Department of Dermatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, P.R. China.
Abstract:
To enable the rapid and sensitive screening of the BRAF V600E mutation in clinical samples, a novel method combining restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis with the popular amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS) TaqMan quantitative (qPCR) genotyping method in a single reaction tube was developed. A total of 2 primer pairs were designed to enrich for and genotype the BRAF mutational hotspot (RFLP primers and ARMS primers) and a restriction enzyme was used to remove the wild-type alleles. The analysis revealed that this method detected mutant alleles in mixed samples containing >0.1% mutant sequences. In a survey of 53 melanoma samples, this method detected 21 mutation-positive samples. This novel RFLP-ARMS TaqMan qPCR protocol may prove useful for detecting mutations in clinical samples containing only a small proportion of mutant alleles.
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