scholarly journals Development of a TaqMan Allelic Discrimination Assay for detection of Single Nucleotides Polymorphisms associated with anti-malarial drug resistance

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Kamau ◽  
Saba Alemayehu ◽  
Karla C Feghali ◽  
LaDonna S Tolbert ◽  
Bernard Ogutu ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Pi ◽  
Lanyan Fu ◽  
Yufen Xu ◽  
Di Che ◽  
Qiulian Deng ◽  
...  

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a type of disease that includes the development of a fever that lasts at least 5 days and involves the clinical manifestation of multicellular vasculitis. KD has become one of the most common pediatric cardiovascular diseases. Previous studies have reported that miR-218 rs11134527 A>G is associated with susceptibility to various cancer risks. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding the relationship between this polymorphism and KD risk. The present study explored the correlation between the miR-218 rs11134527 A>G polymorphism and the risk of KD. We recruited 532 patients with KD and 623 controls to genotype the miR-218 rs11134527 A>G polymorphism with a TaqMan allelic discrimination assay. Our results illustrated that the miR-218 rs11134527 A>G polymorphism was not associated with KD risk. In an analysis stratified by age, sex, and coronary artery lesions, we found only that the risk of KD was significantly decreased for children older than 5 years (GG vs. AA/AG: adjusted OR = 0.26, 95% CI = 0.07–0.94, P=0.041). The present study demonstrated that the miR-218 rs1113452 A>G polymorphism may have an age-related relationship with KD susceptibility that has not previously been revealed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-172
Author(s):  
Abdallah Al-Salameh ◽  
Nicolas Danchin ◽  
Céline Verstuyft ◽  
Salma Kotti ◽  
Etienne Puymirat ◽  
...  

Data from two French surveys were used to analyze the association between in-hospital statin discontinuation and SLCO1B1 polymorphism (rs4149056) in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Using TaqMan allelic discrimination assay, 1674 and 1708 patients were genotyped for SLCO1B1 in 2005 and 2010, respectively. The association with in-hospital statin discontinuation was assessed after adjusting for confounding factors. In 2005, homozygosity for the reduced-function allele was associated with an increased risk of in-hospital statin discontinuation (OR: 3.68; p = 0.004) compared with the wild-type allele but this association disappeared in 2010. However, statin type and intensity-dose differed significantly between the surveys. SLCO1B1 polymorphism (rs4149056) does not seem to be a major determinant of early ‘in-hospital’ statin discontinuation after acute myocardial infarction.


2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanfei Wang ◽  
Zhaoliang Lu ◽  
Lanyan Fu ◽  
Yaqian Tan ◽  
Di Che ◽  
...  

Abstract Kawasaki disease (KD) is also called mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome and is an acute febrile pediatric disease characterized by systemic vasculitis. KD typically occurs in children 5 years old or younger and occurs more often in males than in females. miRNA-608 has been reported to interact with interleukin-6 and affect innate immunity. The immune-mediated inflammation could induce the occurrence of KD; however, there is no previous research focused on the relationship between miRNA-608 polymorphism and the KD risk. The present study explored the correlation between the miRNA-608 rs4919510 G>C polymorphism and the risk for KD. We recruited 532 patients with KD and 623 controls to genotype the miRNA-608 rs4919510 G>C polymorphism with a TaqMan allelic discrimination assay. Single-locus analysis showed no significant association between miRNA rs4919510 G>C polymorphism and KD susceptibility. However in an analysis stratified by age, gender, and coronary artery lesion (CAL), we found a relationship between the miRNA-608 rs4919510 G>C polymorphism and KD susceptibility. When KD patients were stratified by coronary injury, the CG/CC genotypes of the miRNA-608 rs4919510 G>C polymorphism contributed to a higher occurrence of KD than that was found in the GG genotype patients (adjusted odds ratio = 0.74, 95% CI = 0.56–0.98, P = 0.033). The present study demonstrated that the miRNA-608 rs4919510 G>C polymorphism may have a CAL-related relationship with KD susceptibility that has not been previously revealed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (No. 8) ◽  
pp. 307-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Manga ◽  
J. Dvořák

Alleles A1 and A2 of the Bos taurus CSN2 gene are the most frequent in a number of dairy cattle breeds. In this study, a new allelic discrimination assay using TaqMan fluorogenic probes was developed to detect single nucleotide substitution characterizing the A1/A2 alleles of the CSN2 gene. The method was validated using DNA samples of known genotypes with different concentrations and the results were compared with those for the commonly used problematic ACRS-PCR. We found the TaqMan method to be more effective, 100% reliable and hundred times more sensitive for testing the CSN2 genetic marker in cattle than the ACRS-PCR. As it enabled a rapid analysis of a large number of DNA samples in uniform format without previous DNA quality assessment and without the requirement for post-amplification manipulations, it presents an effective tool for the analysis of large-scale sample sets. The method was applied for testing on a sample of 120 Czech Holstein dairy cows. The observed relative genotype and allele frequencies were as follows: A1A1–0.20, A1A2–0.51, A2A2–0.29; A1–0.45, A2–0.55.


2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 496-497
Author(s):  
Ana M. Sifuentes-Rincón ◽  
Herlinda E. Puentes-Montiel ◽  
Víctor R. Moreno-Medina ◽  
Xóchitl F. de la Rosa-Reyna

Author(s):  
Nóra Török ◽  
Rita Maszlag-Török ◽  
Kinga Molnár ◽  
Zoltán Szolnoki ◽  
Ferenc Somogyvári ◽  
...  

Earlier studies reported alterations of the kynurenine (KYN) pathway of tryptophan (TRP) metabolism in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The first rate-limiting enzymes indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) and tryptophan dioxygenase were observed upregulated, resulting elevated KYN/TRP ratios in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples of patients with PD. An increasing number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been identified in a population of PD. However, little is known if genetic variations of the IDO contribute to disturbance of the KYN metabolism in and the pathogenesis of PD. SNP analysis of IDO1 was performed by allelic discrimination assay with fluorescently labelled TaqMan probes and a subgroup analysis was conducted according to the age of PD onset. The frame shifts variant rs34155785, intronic variant rs7820268, and promotor region variant rs9657182 SNPs of 105 PD patients without comorbidity were analyzed and compared to 129 healthy controls. No significant correlation was found in three SNPs between PD patients and healthy controls. However, the subgroup analysis revealed that A alleles of rs7820268 SNP or rs9657182 SNP carriers contribute to later onset of PD than non-carriers. The study suggested that SNPs of IDO1 influenced the age onset of PD and genotyping of SNPs in certain alleles potentially serves as a risk biomarker of PD.


2021 ◽  
pp. jim-2021-002047
Author(s):  
Angélica Araceli Ramírez-Guerrero ◽  
Christian Octavio González-Villaseñor ◽  
Evelia Leal-Ugarte ◽  
Melva Gutiérrez-Angulo ◽  
Mario Ramírez-Flores ◽  
...  

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and one of the main causes of death around the world. Multiple lines of evidence have suggested the role of the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) family in CRC induction, including the low expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 2 (CRHR2), which is an angiogenesis inhibitor and inflammatory modulator. Previous research suggests that CRHR2 expression in colonic intestinal cells can regulate migration, proliferation and apoptosis through the modulation of several pathways. The aim of this study was to analyze the association of the rs10250835, rs2267716 and rs2267717 variants of CRHR2 gene with CRC in the Mexican population in order to consider its predictive value in CRC. This cross-sectional study included a group of 187 unrelated patients with sporadic CRC and a control group of 191 healthy blood donors. DNA extraction from peripheral blood was carried out using the Miller method. Identification of the rs10250835 variant was performed using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and the rs2267716 and rs2267717 variants using TaqMan allelic discrimination assay. The minor allele homozygous CC of the rs2267716 variant of CRHR2 showed significant difference between CRC and control group (p=0.025), as well as the GCA haplotype (p=0.007), corresponding to the rs10250835, rs2267716 and rs2267717 variants, respectively. Our results suggest that the rs2267716 variant and GCA haplotype of CRHR2 represent a risk factor for CRC development in Mexican patients.


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