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Mostafa Saadat1, Akram Qasemian-Talgard1, Fatemeh Zahra Darvishi1
1Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Abstract:
Today several millions polymorphic sites in human genome are well described. Many investigators are studying the association between these polymorphisms and susceptibility to multifactorial traits. These polymorphisms are also used for studying the population's genetic structures. Here, we introduce a new simple one step method for estimating the allelic frequency of polymorphic sites in pooled samples. The method is based on measurement of the intensity of polymorphic bands on agarose gel electrophoresis. This method is very simple, rapid, inexpensive, and is more sensitive compared to the chip-based matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry method.
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