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Multiplex genotyping for cystic fibrosis from filter paper blood spots
K H Poyser1, H A Wyatt, S M Chambers
1Department of Clinical Biochemistry, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK.
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry
|October 13, 1998
Abstract:
Cystic fibrosis is a common disease of the Caucasian population and is associated with significant early mortality. We present a simple and rapid method for cystic fibrosis genotyping from filter paper blood spots, using a currently available commercial genotyping kit. Using multiplex technology, genotype information on the four most common UK mutations can easily be obtained within a single working day. Used in conjunction with current immunoreactive typsinogen screening protocols, blood spot genotyping offers a method of hastening the diagnosis, and thus treatment, of cystic fibrosis.