Chatzikyriakidou Anthoula, Yapijakis Christos, Sofikitis Nikolaos, Vassilopoulos Dimitrios, Georgiou Ioannis
Genetics Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece.
Mol Diagn. 2005;9(4):217-9. doi: 10.1007/BF03260095.
The expansion of specific trinucleotide repeats results in certain genetic disorders.
Real-time PCR analysis was used to rapidly discriminate between normal and expanded (CAG)(n) alleles in the androgen receptor gene.
The difference in melting temperature (T(m)) between the most common normal and expanded alleles was approximately 1 degrees C.
Real-time PCR analysis seems to be a highly reliable and rapid method, which may facilitate the first molecular approach to human trinucleotide repeat disorders.