Dürr C, Hinney A, Luckenbach C, Ritter H
Institut für Anthropologie und Humangenetik, Tübingen, Germany.
Electrophoresis. 1995 May;16(5):719-21. doi: 10.1002/elps.11501601116.
Object of this investigation was the isolation of a single-locus probe from a multi-locus fingerprint. Individual specific multi-locus fingerprints in man were generated by using the oligonucleotide probe (ATTTT)5. An isolated (ATTTT)5-positive DNA fragment was analyzed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cycle-sequencing and nonradioactive direct-blotting electrophoresis. A digoxigenated oligonucleotide synthesized according to this sequence was used as a single-locus probe. Two hypervariable loci were detected on Southern blots. Formal genetic investigations for the two loci were performed in order to estimate the allele frequencies. Locus 1 shows an individual-specific banding pattern with an autosomal-codominant inheritance and can be used for forensic investigations. Locus 2 also represents a polymorphic pattern, but the inheritance is not according to the Mendelian rules. Probably we have detected a highly mutagenic locus in the human genome.
