Lacerra Giuseppina, Musollino Gennaro, Di Noce Francesca, Prezioso Romeo, Carestia Clementina
Haematologica. 2007 Feb;92(2):254-5. doi: 10.3324/haematol.10736.
We report the conditions of a multiplex-amplifiction refractory mutation system (ARMS) for genotyping for nine assay for the detection of alpha1 Hb J-Oxford and -alpha3.7 -AC. The method is reproducible, reliable, simple, rapid, inexpensive and provides genotype diagnosis in >70% of point-mutation carriers in Mediterranean countries. Moreover, it allows investigation of the structure of mutated alleles by sequencing ARMS-amplicons.