From genes to phenotypes – Evaluation of two methods for the SNP analysis in archaeological remains: Pyrosequencing and competitive allele specific PCR (KASPar)

2012 ◽  
Vol 194 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Pruvost ◽  
Monika Reissmann ◽  
Norbert Benecke ◽  
Arne Ludwig
2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
pp. 1742-1749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieying Jiang ◽  
Nelson LS Tang ◽  
Claes Ohlsson ◽  
Anna L Eriksson ◽  
Liesbeth Vandenput ◽  
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BACKGROUND Results of recent studies have demonstrated that genetic variants of the enzyme steroid 5α reductase type II (SRD5A2) are associated with serum concentrations of major androgen metabolites such as conjugates of androstane-3α,17β-diol-glucuronide (3α-diol-G). However, this association was not consistently found among different ethnic groups. Thus, we aimed to determine whether the association with SRD5A2 genetic variations exists in a cohort of healthy Chinese elderly men, by examining 2 metabolite conjugates: androstane-3α,l7β-diol-3-glucuronide (3α-diol-3G) and androstane-3α,17β-diol-17-glucuronide (3α-diol-17G). METHODS We used GC-MS and LC-MS to measure serum sex steroid concentrations, including testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, and 3α-diol-3G and 3α-diol-17G in 1182 Chinese elderly men age 65 and older. Genotyping of the 3 SRD5A2 tagSNPs [rs3731586, rs12470143, and rs523349 (V89L)] was performed by using melting-temperature–shift allele-specific PCR. RESULTS The well-described SRD5A2 missense variant rs523349 (V89L) was modestly associated with the 3α-diol-17G concentration (P = 0.040). On the other hand, SNP rs12470143 was found to be significantly correlated with 3α-diol-3G concentration (P = 0.021). Results of haplotype analysis suggested that the presence of an A-C-G haplotype leads to an increased 3α-diol-3G concentration, a finding consistent with results of single SNP analysis. CONCLUSIONS The genetic variation of SRD5A2 is associated with circulating 3α-diol-3G and 3α-diol-17G concentrations in Chinese elderly men. In addition, we showed that SRD5A2 haplotypic association, rather than a single SNP alone, might be a better predictor of the 3α-diol-G concentration. Thus, the effect of either the haplotype itself or of other ungenotyped SNPs in linkage disequilibrium with the haplotype is responsible for the interindividual variation of 3α-diol-G.


1996 ◽  
Vol 75 (05) ◽  
pp. 757-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Blasczyk ◽  
Markus Ritter ◽  
Christian Thiede ◽  
Jenny Wehling ◽  
Günter Hintz ◽  
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SummaryResistance to activated protein C is the most common hereditary cause for thrombosis and significantly linked to factor V Leiden. In this study, primers were designed to identify the factor V mutation by allele-specific PCR amplification. 126 patients with thromboembolic events were analysed using this technique, PCR-RFLP and direct sequencing. The concordance between these techniques was 100%. In 27 patients a heterozygous factor VGln506 mutation was detected, whereas one patient with recurrent thromboembolism was homozygous for the point mutation. Due to its time- and cost-saving features allele-specific amplification should be considered for screening of factor VGln506.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengjie Chen ◽  
Dengguo Tang ◽  
Jixing Ni ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
Le Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Maize is one of the most important field crops in the world. Most of the key agronomic traits, including yield traits and plant architecture traits, are quantitative. Fine mapping of genes/ quantitative trait loci (QTL) influencing a key trait is essential for marker-assisted selection (MAS) in maize breeding. However, the SNP markers with high density and high polymorphism are lacking, especially kompetitive allele specific PCR (KASP) SNP markers that can be used for automatic genotyping. To date, a large volume of sequencing data has been produced by the next generation sequencing technology, which provides a good pool of SNP loci for development of SNP markers. In this study, we carried out a multi-step screening method to identify kompetitive allele specific PCR (KASP) SNP markers based on the RNA-Seq data sets of 368 maize inbred lines. Results A total of 2,948,985 SNPs were identified in the high-throughput RNA-Seq data sets with the average density of 1.4 SNP/kb. Of these, 71,311 KASP SNP markers (the average density of 34 KASP SNP/Mb) were developed based on the strict criteria: unique genomic region, bi-allelic, polymorphism information content (PIC) value ≥0.4, and conserved primer sequences, and were mapped on 16,161 genes. These 16,161 genes were annotated to 52 gene ontology (GO) terms, including most of primary and secondary metabolic pathways. Subsequently, the 50 KASP SNP markers with the PIC values ranging from 0.14 to 0.5 in 368 RNA-Seq data sets and with polymorphism between the maize inbred lines 1212 and B73 in in silico analysis were selected to experimentally validate the accuracy and polymorphism of SNPs, resulted in 46 SNPs (92.00%) showed polymorphism between the maize inbred lines 1212 and B73. Moreover, these 46 polymorphic SNPs were utilized to genotype the other 20 maize inbred lines, with all 46 SNPs showing polymorphism in the 20 maize inbred lines, and the PIC value of each SNP was 0.11 to 0.50 with an average of 0.35. The results suggested that the KASP SNP markers developed in this study were accurate and polymorphic. Conclusions These high-density polymorphic KASP SNP markers will be a valuable resource for map-based cloning of QTL/genes and marker-assisted selection in maize. Furthermore, the method used to develop SNP markers in maize can also be applied in other species.


Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 982
Author(s):  
Zhiliang Xiao ◽  
Congcong Kong ◽  
Fengqing Han ◽  
Limei Yang ◽  
Mu Zhuang ◽  
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Cabbage (Brassica oleracea) is an important vegetable crop that is cultivated worldwide. Previously, we reported the identification of two dominant complementary hybrid lethality (HL) genes in cabbage that could result in the death of hybrids. To avoid such losses in the breeding process, we attempted to develop molecular markers to identify HL lines. Among 54 previous mapping markers closely linked to BoHL1 or BoHL2, only six markers for BoHL2 were available in eight cabbage lines (two BoHL1 lines; three BoHL2 lines; three lines without BoHL); however, they were neither universal nor user-friendly in more inbred lines. To develop more accurate markers, these cabbage lines were resequenced at an ~20× depth to obtain more nucleotide variations in the mapping regions. Then, an InDel in BoHL1 and a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in BoHL2 were identified, and the corresponding InDel marker MBoHL1 and the competitive allele-specific PCR (KASP) marker KBoHL2 were developed and showed 100% accuracy in eight inbred lines. Moreover, we identified 138 cabbage lines using the two markers, among which one inbred line carried BoHL1 and 11 inbred lines carried BoHL2. All of the lethal line genotypes obtained with the two markers matched the phenotype. Two markers were highly reliable for the rapid identification of HL genes in cabbage.


2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 569-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Giroux ◽  
A Dubé-Linteau ◽  
G Cardinal ◽  
Y Labelle ◽  
N Laflamme ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 961-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
LingHui Zhang ◽  
Zhuo Tang

2007 ◽  
Vol 376 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Casado-Díaz ◽  
Rafael Cuenca-Acevedo ◽  
José Manuel Quesada ◽  
Gabriel Dorado

Author(s):  
Razieh Alivand ◽  
Fatemeh Abdi ◽  
Mahmood Dehghani-Ashkezari ◽  
Hossein Neamatzadeh ◽  
Sedigheh Ekraminasab

Background: Recurrent miscarriage (RM) is one of the major problems of public health globally. The thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) gene is a plasma zymogen that regulates both fibrinolysis and inflammation. Genetic variants within TAFI gene are presumed to be associated with development of RM. This case-control study aimed to investigate the association of TAFI +505A>G polymorphism with RM in Iranian women referred to Meybod Genetic Center. Methods: Fifty women with RM (at least 2 miscarriages) and 50 healthy women with no history of miscarriage or other fertility complications were participated in this study. The TAFI +505A>G polymorphism was genotyped by allele specific PCR (AS-PCR) assay. Results: The mean age of cases with RM and controls was 27.25 ± 4.31 and 28.42 ± 3.22 years, respectively. The frequency of GG genotype and G allele was 0.00% in patients and controls. There was no significant difference between RM cases and controls in terms of +505A>G genotypes and alleles. Conclusion: This study results indicated that there was no significant relationship between the TAFI +505A>G polymorphism and RM risk in Iranian women. However, further rigorous, studies with a larger sample size and different ethnicity are necessary to confirm our findings.


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