Ligation of high-melting-temperature ‘clamp’ sequence extends the scanning range of rare point-mutational analysis by constant denaturant capillary electrophoresis (CDCE) to most of the human genome
AUTOR(ES)
Kim, Andrea S.
FONTE
Oxford University Press
RESUMO
Mutations cause or influence the prevalence of many diseases. In human tissues, somatic point mutations have been observed at fractions at or below 4/10 000 and 5/100 000 in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, respectively. In human populations, fractions for the multiple alleles that code for recessive deleterious syndromes are not expected to exceed 5 × 10–4. Both nuclear and mitochondrial point mutations have been measured in human cells and tissues at fractions approaching 10–6 using constant denaturant capillary electrophoresis (CDCE) coupled with high-fidelity PCR (hifiPCR). However, this approach is only applicable to those target sequences (∼100 bp) juxtaposed with a ‘clamp’, a higher-melting-temperature sequence, in genomic DNA; such naturally clamped targets represent ∼9% of the human genome. To open up most of the human genome to rare point-mutational analysis, a high-efficiency DNA ligation procedure was recently developed so that a clamp could be attached to any target of interest. We coupled this ligation procedure with prior CDCE/hifiPCR and achieved a sensitivity of 2 × 10–5 in human cells for the first time using an externally attached clamp. At this sensitivity, somatic mutations, each representing an anatomically distinct cluster of cells (turnover unit) derived from a mutant stem cell, may be detected in a series of tissue samples, each containing as many as 5 × 104 turnover units. Additionally, rare inherited mutations may be scanned in pooled DNA samples, each derived from as many as 105 persons.
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