Methods in Molecular Biology™, 2008, Volume 439, 19-34, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-188-8_2

Scanning for DNA Variants by Denaturant Capillary Electrophoresis

Per O. Ekstrøm

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Abstract

Analysis and detection of DNA variation is important in any field of biology. Hence, numerous methods have been developed to analyze DNA. A simple yet effective way of analyzing DNA is by denaturant capillary electrophoresis (DCE). The method is in theory applicable to 95% of the human genome. The method involves three steps; fragment design, PCR amplification and allele separation. The allele separation can in principle be performed with any DNA capillary sequencing instrument.

Keywords  DGGE (denaturant gradient gel electrophoresis) – CDCE (constant denaturant capillary electrophoresis) – CTCE (cycling temperature capillary electrophoresis) – PCR (polymerase chain reaction) – dsDNA — double strand DNA – ssDNA — single strand DNA

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