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Single Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction for Comprehensive and Simultaneous Detection of Mutations in Hotspot Regions
Published on: September 25, 2018
[Detection of mutations causing Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies: multiplex polymerase chain reaction vs.
Francia Dp Huamán-Dianderas1, María Luisa Guevara-Fujita1, Diana Rojas Málaga2
1Centro de Investigación de Genética y Biología Molecular, Instituto de Investigación, Facultad de Medicina Humana, Universidad de San Martín de Porres. Lima, Perú.
Abstract:
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies are rare diseases that receive limited attention in our field. The objective of this study was to implement the Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification technique (MLPA) and to demonstrate that it has advantages over the Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction (Multiplex PCR) technique. Samples from 40 individuals with a presumptive diagnosis of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies were analyzed: first by Multiplex PCR and then by MLPA. Fifteen individuals with causal deletions were detected with Multiplex PCR, while the MLPA technique was able to diagnose 21 individuals, four duplications, and 17 deletions. In conclusion, the MLPA technique can detect mutations of the exon deletion and duplication type, yielding a larger number of molecular diagnoses due to alterations in the DMD gene.
