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Fingerprinting of Campylobacter jejuni by Using Resolution-Optimized Binary Gene Targets Derived from Comparative Genome Hybridization Studies
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The aim of this investigation was to exploit the vast comparative data generated by comparative genome hybridization (CGH) studies of Campylobacter jejuni in developing a genotyping method. We examined genes in C. jejuni that exhibit binary status (present or absent between strains) within known plasticity regions, in order to identify a minimal subset of gene targets that provide high-resolution genetic fingerprints. Using CGH data from three studies as input, binary gene sets were identified with “Minimum SNPs” software. “Minimum SNPs” selects for the minimum number of targets required to obtain a predefined resolution, based on Simpson's index of diversity (D). After implementation of stringent criteria for gene presence/absence, eight binary genes were found that provided 100% resolution (D = 1) of 20 C. jejuni strains. A real-time PCR assay was developed and tested on 181 C. jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates, a subset of which have previously been characterized by multilocus sequence typing, flaA short variable region sequencing, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. In addition to the binary gene real-time PCR assay, we refined the seven-member single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) real-time PCR assay previously described for C. jejuni and C. coli. By normalizing the SNP assay with the respective C. jejuni and C. coli ubiquitous genes, mapA and ceuE, the polymorphisms at each SNP could be determined without separate reactions for every polymorphism. We have developed and refined a rapid, highly discriminatory genotyping method for C. jejuni and C. coli that uses generic technology and is amenable to high-throughput analyses. 相似文献
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Different methods have been developed for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing during recent years. Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (ASPCR) is a cost-saving method that scores SNPs by difference of the PCR efficiency of allele-specific primers. However, ASPCR for SNP typing is notoriously confounded for its locus-specific unpredictability and the laborious gel electrophoresis. In the current study, we investigated the real-time kinetics of ASPCR and found that a simple touchdown thermocycling protocol improved its specificity significantly. Combined with real-time PCR, we developed a homogeneous genotyping method and scored more than 1000 genotypes, including all transition and transversion SNPs. A clear genotyping result was identified and validated the robustness of the method. Optimization of reactions and intrinsic modification of allele-specific primers, a laborious process but one that is repeatedly reported to be inevitable for successful ASPCR, was proved to be unnecessary with our method. Accuracy was confirmed with mass spectrometry. These characters enabled real-time ASPCR with the touchdown thermocycling protocol being very competitive among various SNP typing methods for large-scale genetic studies. 相似文献
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目的 在法医学领域,现有的SNP检测主要依赖进口,检测工作量大、耗时长且成本较高。微滴数字PCR (droplet digital PCR,ddPCR)作为新一代的PCR技术,可以快速检测低浓度样本DNA,且有较强的抗干扰能力。本研究旨在国产ddPCR平台建立SNP分型检测体系并对其性能进行评估,以探讨ddPCR技术在法医学检验领域的应用价值。方法 在ddPCR平台建立高原适应性EPAS1单倍型(rs115321619、rs73926263、rs73926264、rs73926265和rs55981512)检测体系,测试各位点引物探针特异性,对体系的准确性、稳定性、灵敏度、检材适应性进行评估,并比较了ddPCR和SNaPshot微测序检测体系的抗抑制性,最后对样本地区来源进行测试。结果 ddPCR在2.5 h内即可快速获取检测结果,体系准确性和稳定性好,检测灵敏度为0.312 5 ng,且抗抑制性能力突出。70份测试样本检测结果与背景信息一致。结论 基于ddPCR的SNP检测体系具有准确可靠、简便快速、抗抑制能力强等优势,在法医学快速检验领域有较强的应用潜力,适合法医现场检验需求。 相似文献
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Matthew J. Hayden T. Tabone D. E. Mather 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》2009,119(5):939-951
Simple molecular marker assays underpin routine plant breeding and research activities in many laboratories worldwide. With
the rapid growth of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) resources for many important crop plants, the availability of routine,
low-tech marker assays for genotyping SNPs is of increased importance. In this study, we demonstrate that temperature-switch
PCR (TSP) supports the rapid development of robust, allele-specific PCR markers for codominant SNP genotyping on agarose gel.
A total of 87 TSP markers for assessing gene diversity in barley were developed and used to investigate the efficacy for marker
development, assay reliably and genotyping accuracy. The TSP markers described provide good coverage of the barley genome,
are simple to use, easy to interpret and score, and are amenable to assay automation. They provide a resource of informative
SNP markers for assessing genetic relationships among individuals, populations and gene pools of cultivated barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and its wild relative H. spontaneum K. Koch. TSP markers provide opportunities to use available SNP resources for marker-assisted breeding and plant genetic
research, and to generate information that can be integrated with SNP data from different sources and studies. TSP markers
are expected to provide similar advantages for any animal or plant species.
M. J. Hayden and T. Tabone contributed equally to this work. 相似文献
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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have proven to be powerful genetic markers for a variety of genetic applications, e.g., association studies leading to dissection of both monogenetic and complex diseases. However, no single SNP genotyping method has been broadly accepted. In the present study, we compared and refined two promising methods with potential for research and for diagnostic SNP genotyping: Amplifluor allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ligation detection reaction (LDR)-TaqMan. The methods are based on allele-specific primer extension and allele-specific ligation, respectively. Since LDR-TaqMan had previously been tested on just Arabidopsis thaliana, we adjusted the method for the more complex human genome. Amplifluor allele-specific PCR has a single-step and closed-tube format, whereas the LDR-TaqMan assay comprises two simple steps. Contrary to the primer-extension-based method, the ligation-based method can be multiplexed. Refining the LDR-TaqMan technique, we successfully replaced a previously suggested three-step multiplexing procedure with a less laborious two-step approach. Comparing refined LDR-TaqMan with Amplifluor allele-specific PCR in a family-based study, both techniques appeared similar with respect to high robustness and accuracy. As both approaches utilize primers with common tails, all SNPs can be assayed with the same couple of fluorescence reporting reagents, ensuring low establishing and running expenses. 相似文献
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Michiel J. T. van Eijk José L. N. Broekhof Hein J. A. van der Poel René C. J. Hogers Harrie Schneiders Judith Kamerbeek Esther Verstege Joris W. van Aart Henk Geerlings Jaap B. Buntjer A. Jan van Oeveren Pieter Vos 《Nucleic acids research》2004,32(4):e47
Scalable multiplexed amplification technologies are needed for cost-effective large-scale genotyping of genetic markers such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We present SNPWaveTM, a novel SNP genotyping technology to detect various subsets of sequences in a flexible fashion in a fixed detection format. SNPWave is based on highly multiplexed ligation, followed by amplification of up to 20 ligated probes in a single PCR. Depending on the multiplexing level of the ligation reaction, the latter employs selective amplification using the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP®) technology. Detection of SNPWave reaction products is based on size separation on a sequencing instrument with multiple fluorescence labels and short run times. The SNPWave technique is illustrated by a 100-plex genotyping assay for Arabidopsis, a 40-plex assay for tomato and a 10-plex assay for Caenorhabditis elegans, detected on the MegaBACE 1000 capillary sequencer. 相似文献
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Olga De Castro Antonietta Di Maio José Armando Lozada García Danilo Piacenti Mario Vázquez-Torres Paolo De Luca 《Annals of botany》2013,112(3):589-602
Background and Aims
Recent research on the history of Platanus reveals that hybridization phenomena occurred in the central American species. This study has two goals: to help resolve the evolutive puzzle of central American Platanus, and to test the potential of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detecting ancient hybridization.Methods
Sequencing of a uniparental plastid DNA marker [psbA-trnH(GUG) intergenic spacer] and qualitative and quantitative single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping of biparental nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) markers [LEAFY intron 2 (LFY-i2) and internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2)] were used.Key Results
Based on the SNP genotyping results, several Platanus accessions show the presence of hybridization/introgression, including some accessions of P. rzedowskii and of P. mexicana var. interior and one of P. mexicana var. mexicana from Oaxaca (= P. oaxacana). Based on haplotype analyses of the psbA-trnH spacer, five haplotypes were detected. The most common of these is present in taxa belonging to P. orientalis, P. racemosa sensu lato, some accessions of P. occidentalis sensu stricto (s.s.) from Texas, P. occidentalis var. palmeri, P. mexicana s.s. and P. rzedowskii. This is highly relevant to genetic relationships with the haplotypes present in P. occidentalis s.s. and P. mexicana var. interior.Conclusions
Hybridization and introgression events between lineages ancestral to modern central and eastern North American Platanus species occurred. Plastid haplotypes and qualitative and quantitative SNP genotyping provide information critical for understanding the complex history of Mexican Platanus. Compared with the usual molecular techniques of sub-cloning, sequencing and genotyping, real-time PCR assay is a quick and sensitive technique for analysing complex evolutionary patterns. 相似文献8.
D. Goretti E. Bitocchi E. Bellucci M. Rodriguez D. Rau T. Gioia G. Attene P. McClean L. Nanni R. Papa 《Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement》2014,33(3):531-544
In this study, new single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers were developed for common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and related Phaseolus species. The applied strategy presents new and interesting aspects, such as the choice of accessions used, which was aimed at capturing a large portion of the genetic diversity present in the common bean, with particular focus on wild and domesticated materials from Mesoamerica and the identification of loci for sequencing. Indeed, the primer pairs for 34 loci were designed with the main strategy being to search for single-copy orthologous genes among the legumes (for use in other legume species and comparative analyses). The 10 remaining loci were selected as being near to domestication quantitative trait loci or detected as putatively under selection during domestication in previous studies. To provide an efficient and inexpensive genotyping platform for geneticists and breeders, we used sequence data to develop 60 new SNP markers for KASPar assay genotyping. The same sample was also genotyped with SNP markers developed for common bean in other studies for the same assay. This allowed testing for systematic bias according to the criteria chosen to select the genotypes in which the genetic diversity is surveyed during SNP discovery. Finally, we show that most of the SNP markers worked well in a set of accessions of other species belonging to the Phaseolus genus. The genetic resources developed will be very useful not only for breeding, but also for biodiversity conservation management and evolutionary studies on legumes. 相似文献
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Today, the genomic revolution in epidemiology, medicine and population based genetic association studies are results of on-going refocusing efforts toward development of inexpensive and accurate techniques for SNP genotyping. Despite this considerable gain, high throughput and routinely applicable newer SNP detection techniques are still needed. Therefore, aim of this study was to develop and validate a simple, rapid and inexpensive restriction enzyme based method for genotyping of corticotrophin-releasing hormone receptor1 (CRHR1; rs1396862: C>T) gene variant. This polymorphism has been investigated in a variety of psychiatric and association studies of asthma. A total of 250 healthy volunteers were recruited from same ethnicity and their blood DNA samples were employed for genotyping. Primers were designed using Batch primer3 Software. Specificity and functionality of primers were tested with BLAST database and UCSC In-silco PCR respectively. The lake of a PstI recognition site was seen with T allele. The allele frequencies for rs1396862: C>T were 0.88 (C allele) and 0.12 (T allele). We get 100 % concordant genotyping results for sequencing and PCR–RFLP. This newer genotyping approach lowers the cost and increased the speed. It is particularly useful for small basic research studies of complex genetic disorder. 相似文献
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Michael J. Thomson Keyan Zhao Mark Wright Kenneth L. McNally Jessica Rey Chih-Wei Tung Andy Reynolds Brian Scheffler Georgia Eizenga Anna McClung Hyunjung Kim Abdelbagi M. Ismail Marjorie de Ocampo Chromewell Mojica Ma. Ymber Reveche Christine J. Dilla-Ermita Ramil Mauleon Hei Leung Carlos Bustamante Susan R. McCouch 《Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement》2012,29(4):875-886
Multiplexed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have the potential to increase the speed and cost-effectiveness of genotyping, provided that an optimal SNP density is used for each application. To test the efficiency of multiplexed SNP genotyping for diversity, mapping and breeding applications in rice (Oryza sativa L.), we designed seven GoldenGate VeraCode oligo pool assay (OPA) sets for the Illumina BeadXpress Reader. Validated markers from existing 1536 Illumina SNPs and 44?K Affymetrix SNP chips developed at Cornell University were used to select subsets of informative SNPs for different germplasm groups with even distribution across the genome. A 96-plex OPA was developed for quality control purposes and for assigning a sample into one of the five O. sativa population subgroups. Six 384-plex OPAs were designed for genetic diversity analysis, DNA fingerprinting, and to have evenly-spaced polymorphic markers for quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping and background selection for crosses between different germplasm pools in rice: Indica/Indica, Indica/Japonica, Japonica/Japonica, Indica/O. rufipogon, and Japonica/O. rufipogon. After testing on a diverse set of rice varieties, two of the SNP sets were re-designed by replacing poor-performing SNPs. Pilot studies were successfully performed for diversity analysis, QTL mapping, marker-assisted backcrossing, and developing specialized genetic stocks, demonstrating that 384-plex SNP genotyping on the BeadXpress platform is a robust and efficient method for marker genotyping in rice. 相似文献
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Xiaohua Chen Ted J. Hofmann Satoru Otsuru Reena Jethva Curt Lind Dimitri Monos Edwin M. Horwitz 《Cytotherapy》2010,12(8):1035-1043
Background aimsChimerism is an important outcome measure in hematopoietic cell transplantation as well as somatic cell therapy. Commonly used methods to estimate chimerism are restricted by either gender or inefficient sensitivity. In principle, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays can be used to assess single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), which are a vast resource of molecular markers, and such assays demonstrate a substantially higher sensitivity (0.001%), but the specificity is unclear because of a low-level signal from mismatched sequences.MethodsIn this study, we cloned 14 pairs of SNP selected from the SNP HapMap database and examined the specificity and sensitivity of their detection by real-time PCR using two primer/fluorescent probe pairs to allow genotyping of the two possible variant alleles. Clinical donor–recipient pairs from 18 families were used to explore the efficacy of using SNP assays to measure chimerism.ResultsWe found that the polymorphic nucleotide influences the ability to distinguish the signal generated by the target and mismatched sequences. Moreover, the specific fluorescent reporter probe can affect the difference in signal intensity between the target and mismatched sequences. Real-time PCR SNP assays can attain a sensitivity of 0.1–0.5% with 100% specificity. When comparing possible clinical donor–recipient pairs, we found an average 3.3 out of 14 SNP were informative.ConclusionsBy optimal selection of the polymorphic sequences and fluorescent reporter, the real-time PCR SNP assay is superior to the short-tandem repeat chimerism assay and broadly applicable. This strategy may be applied in future clinical trials of bone marrow cell therapy. 相似文献
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A duplex real-time PCR assay was designed for simultaneous detection and genotyping of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae). The detection/typing performance of this duplex PCR method, targeting specific genes for M. pneumoniae type 1 (mpn 459) and type 2 (mpna 5864), was compared to that of the previously published MpP1 real-time PCR assay and the genotyping method for the adhesin P1 gene (mpn 141). A total of 1,344 throat swab specimens collected from patients in Beijing, China were tested for M. pneumoniae by bacterial culture, MpP1 real-time PCR assay, and our duplex PCR assay, and positive detection rates of 26.9%, 34.4%, and 33.7%, respectively, were obtained. The duplex PCR method demonstrated high sensitivity and accuracy for detecting and genotyping M. pneumoniae, and significant differences in genotyping ability were observed when compared to the conventional P1 gene-based method. M. pneumoniae type 1 was the predominate genotype from 2008 to 2012 in Beijing, and a shift from type 1 to type 2 began to occur in 2013. To our knowledge, this is the first reported incidence of a type shift phenomenon of M. pneumoniae clinical isolates in China. These genotyping results provide important information for understanding recent changes in epidemiological characteristics of M. pneumoniae in Beijing. 相似文献
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Wang J Chuang K Ahluwalia M Patel S Umblas N Mirel D Higuchi R Germer S 《BioTechniques》2005,39(6):885-893
Despite many recent advances in high-throughput single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping technologies, there is still a great need for inexpensive and flexible methods with a reasonable throughput. Here we report substantial modifications and improvements to an existing homogenous allele-specific PCR-based SNP genotyping method, making it an attractive new option for researchers engaging in candidate gene studies or following up on genome-wide scans. In this advanced version of the melting temperature (Tm)-shift SNP genotyping method, we attach two GC-rich tails of different lengths to allele-specific PCR primers, such that SNP alleles in genomic DNA samples can be discriminated by the Tms of the PCR products. We have validated 306 SNP assays using this method and achieved a success rate in assay development of greater than 83% under uniform PCR conditions. We have developed a standalone software application to automatically assign genotypes directly from melting curve data. To demonstrate the accuracy of this method, we typed 592 individuals for 6 SNPs and showed a high call rate (>98%) and high accuracy (>99.9%). With this method, 6-10,000 samples can be genotyped per day using a single 384-well real-time thermal cycler with 2-4 standard 384-well PCR instruments. 相似文献
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Locked nucleic acid (LNA) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotype analysis and validation using real-time PCR 总被引:8,自引:1,他引:7
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With an increased emphasis on genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in disease association studies, the genotyping platform of choice is constantly evolving. In addition, the development of more specific SNP assays and appropriate genotype validation applications is becoming increasingly critical to elucidate ambiguous genotypes. In this study, we have used SNP specific Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) hybridization probes on a real-time PCR platform to genotype an association cohort and propose three criteria to address ambiguous genotypes. Based on the kinetic properties of PCR amplification, the three criteria address PCR amplification efficiency, the net fluorescent difference between maximal and minimal fluorescent signals and the beginning of the exponential growth phase of the reaction. Initially observed SNP allelic discrimination curves were confirmed by DNA sequencing (n = 50) and application of our three genotype criteria corroborated both sequencing and observed real-time PCR results. In addition, the tested Caucasian association cohort was in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and observed allele frequencies were very similar to two independently tested Caucasian association cohorts for the same tested SNP. We present here a novel approach to effectively determine ambiguous genotypes generated from a real-time PCR platform. Application of our three novel criteria provides an easy to use semi-automated genotype confirmation protocol. 相似文献
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High-Resolution DNA Melt Curve Analysis of the Clustered, Regularly Interspaced Short-Palindromic-Repeat Locus of Campylobacter jejuni 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Erin P. Price Helen Smith Flavia Huygens Philip M. Giffard 《Applied microbiology》2007,73(10):3431-3436
A novel method for genotyping the clustered, regularly interspaced short-palindromic-repeat (CRISPR) locus of Campylobacter jejuni is described. Following real-time PCR, CRISPR products were subjected to high-resolution melt (HRM) analysis, a new technology that allows precise melt profile determination of amplicons. This investigation shows that the CRISPR HRM assay provides a powerful addition to existing C. jejuni genotyping methods and emphasizes the potential of HRM for genotyping short sequence repeats in other species. 相似文献
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Linda Koshy A. L. Anju S. Harikrishnan V. R. Kutty V. T. Jissa Irin Kurikesu Parvathy Jayachandran A. Jayakumaran Nair A. Gangaprasad G. M. Nair P. R. Sudhakaran 《Molecular biology reports》2017,44(1):97-108
The extraction of genomic DNA is the crucial first step in large-scale epidemiological studies. Though there are many popular DNA isolation methods from human whole blood, only a few reports have compared their efficiencies using both end-point and real-time PCR assays. Genomic DNA was extracted from coronary artery disease patients using solution-based conventional protocols such as the phenol–chloroform/proteinase-K method and a non-phenolic non-enzymatic Rapid-Method, which were evaluated and compared vis-a-vis a commercially available silica column-based Blood DNA isolation kit. The appropriate method for efficiently extracting relatively pure DNA was assessed based on the total DNA yield, concentration, purity ratios (A260/A280 and A260/A230), spectral profile and agarose gel electrophoresis analysis. The quality of the isolated DNA was further analysed for PCR inhibition using a murine specific ATP1A3 qPCR assay and mtDNA/Y-chromosome ratio determination assay. The suitability of the extracted DNA for downstream applications such as end-point SNP genotyping, was tested using PCR-RFLP analysis of the AGTR1-1166A>C variant, a mirSNP having pharmacogenetic relevance in cardiovascular diseases. Compared to the traditional phenol–chloroform/proteinase-K method, our results indicated the Rapid-Method to be a more suitable protocol for genomic DNA extraction from human whole blood in terms of DNA quantity, quality, safety, processing time and cost. The Rapid-Method, which is based on a simple salting-out procedure, is not only safe and cost-effective, but also has the added advantage of being scaled up to process variable sample volumes, thus enabling it to be applied in large-scale epidemiological studies. 相似文献
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Genome-wide SNP genotyping highlights the role of natural selection in Plasmodium falciparum population divergence
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Daniel E Neafsey Stephen F Schaffner Sarah K Volkman Daniel Park Philip Montgomery Danny A Milner Jr Amanda Lukens David Rosen Rachel Daniels Nathan Houde Joseph F Cortese Erin Tyndall Casey Gates Nicole Stange-Thomann Ousmane Sarr Daouda Ndiaye Omar Ndir Soulyemane Mboup Marcelo U Ferreira Sandra do Lago Moraes Aditya P Dash Chetan E Chitnis Roger C Wiegand Daniel L Hartl Bruce W Birren Eric S Lander Pardis C Sabeti Dyann F Wirth 《Genome biology》2008,9(12):R171-16
Background
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum exhibits abundant genetic diversity, and this diversity is key to its success as a pathogen. Previous efforts to study genetic diversity in P. falciparum have begun to elucidate the demographic history of the species, as well as patterns of population structure and patterns of linkage disequilibrium within its genome. Such studies will be greatly enhanced by new genomic tools and recent large-scale efforts to map genomic variation. To that end, we have developed a high throughput single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping platform for P. falciparum.Results
Using an Affymetrix 3,000 SNP assay array, we found roughly half the assays (1,638) yielded high quality, 100% accurate genotyping calls for both major and minor SNP alleles. Genotype data from 76 global isolates confirm significant genetic differentiation among continental populations and varying levels of SNP diversity and linkage disequilibrium according to geographic location and local epidemiological factors. We further discovered that nonsynonymous and silent (synonymous or noncoding) SNPs differ with respect to within-population diversity, inter-population differentiation, and the degree to which allele frequencies are correlated between populations.Conclusions
The distinct population profile of nonsynonymous variants indicates that natural selection has a significant influence on genomic diversity in P. falciparum, and that many of these changes may reflect functional variants deserving of follow-up study. Our analysis demonstrates the potential for new high-throughput genotyping technologies to enhance studies of population structure, natural selection, and ultimately enable genome-wide association studies in P. falciparum to find genes underlying key phenotypic traits. 相似文献18.
Wojtasik A Majchrzak M Adamus-Bialek W Augustynowicz-Kopec E Zwolska Z Dziadek J Parniewski P 《Journal of microbiological methods》2011,85(1):28-32
Diseases that are caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) continue to pose difficult clinical problems, and the epidemiological aspect of NTM-caused diseases is of great importance. In the case of Mycobacterium gordonae there is no adequate genotyping scheme. Here we present a potential rapid and reproducible genetic assay that uses trinucleotide repeat sequence-based PCR (TRS-PCR) for genotyping M. gordonae. The proposed method constitutes a useful single-primer PCR screen for genotyping this species. Among 10 TRS-containing primers, after applying (CAC)4-based PCR to 36 strains of M. gordonae, we found a discriminatory index of 0.975. The accuracy of this analysis was supported by a reasonable reproducibility of 92%. These results were compared with the Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus Sequences (ERIC)-PCR typing scheme which had lower discriminatory index of 0.93 and its reproducibility was only 86.3%. 相似文献
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Sara A Bickersmith William Lainhart Marta Moreno Virginia M Chu Joseph M Vinetz Jan E Conn 《Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz》2015,110(4):573-576
We describe a simple method for detection of Plasmodium vivax and
Plasmodium falciparum infection in anophelines using a triplex
TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay (18S rRNA). We tested the
assay on Anopheles darlingi and Anopheles stephensi
colony mosquitoes fed with Plasmodium-infected blood meals and in
duplicate on field collected An. darlingi. We compared the real-time
PCR results of colony-infected and field collected An. darlingi,
separately, to a conventional PCR method. We determined that a cytochrome
b-PCR method was only 3.33% as sensitive and 93.38% as specific
as our real-time PCR assay with field-collected samples. We demonstrate that this
assay is sensitive, specific and reproducible. 相似文献
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The aim of this investigation was to exploit the vast comparative data generated by comparative genome hybridization (CGH) studies of Campylobacter jejuni in developing a genotyping method. We examined genes in C. jejuni that exhibit binary status (present or absent between strains) within known plasticity regions, in order to identify a minimal subset of gene targets that provide high-resolution genetic fingerprints. Using CGH data from three studies as input, binary gene sets were identified with "Minimum SNPs" software. "Minimum SNPs" selects for the minimum number of targets required to obtain a predefined resolution, based on Simpson's index of diversity (D). After implementation of stringent criteria for gene presence/absence, eight binary genes were found that provided 100% resolution (D=1) of 20 C. jejuni strains. A real-time PCR assay was developed and tested on 181 C. jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates, a subset of which have previously been characterized by multilocus sequence typing, flaA short variable region sequencing, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. In addition to the binary gene real-time PCR assay, we refined the seven-member single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) real-time PCR assay previously described for C. jejuni and C. coli. By normalizing the SNP assay with the respective C. jejuni and C. coli ubiquitous genes, mapA and ceuE, the polymorphisms at each SNP could be determined without separate reactions for every polymorphism. We have developed and refined a rapid, highly discriminatory genotyping method for C. jejuni and C. coli that uses generic technology and is amenable to high-throughput analyses. 相似文献