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Showing posts with label deletions. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

abstract: Medium-sized deletion in the BRCA1 gene: Limitations of Sanger sequencing and MLPA analyses.



Medium-sized deletion in the BRCA1 gene: Limitations of Sanger sequencing and MLPA analyses

Sanger sequencing and MLPA analyses.
Genet Mol Biol. 2012

Abstract
We describe a family with a history of breast and ovarian cancer in which MLPA analysis of the BRCA1 gene pointed to a deletion including a part of exon 11. Further characterization confirmed a loss of 374 bp in a region completely covered by conventional sequencing which had not revealed the deletion. Because this alteration was only detected serendipitously with an MLPA probe, we calculated the probabilities of detecting medium-sized deletions in large exons by methods including initial PCR amplification. This showed that a considerable fraction of medium-sized deletions are undetectable by currently used standard methods of mutation analyses. We conclude that long, widely overlapping amplicons should be used to minimize the risk of missing medium-sized deletions. Alternatively, large exons could be completely covered by narrow-spaced MLPA probes.