Sequence determination of an allelic ladder for the STR polymorphism at the CD4 locus and application of the ladder in testing an Austrian Caucasian population sample |
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Institution: | 1. Departamento de Geoquímica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Outeiro de São João Batista, s/nº., Niterói, Rio de Janeiro CEP: 24020-141, Brazil;2. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Física, Departamento de Geofísica Nuclear, Rua Caetano Moura, 123, 40210-350 Salvador, BA, Brazil;3. CENPES-Petrobras/Geoquímica Network, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, RJ 21941-915, Brazil |
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Abstract: | The short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphism at the CD4 locus, designated HUMCD4. was examined by PCR, native polyacrylamide electrophoresis and subsequent silver staining using an allelic ladder of eight distinguishable alleles occurring in an Austrian Caucasian population sample as a standard size marker. The ladder was produced by pooling equal concentrations of eluted, separately amplified and sequenced alleles, which were previously identified by their different electrophoretical migration. Components of the ladder are in regular intervals of five basepairs. Alleles 4 to 8 were designated according to the number of AAAAG repeat units. The four longer alleles 8′ to 11 showed a stable A to G transition in one of the repeat units and were designated counting the AAAGG unit for a AAAAG. Allele 8′ was not included in the ladder because it showed the same electrophoretic mobility as allele 8. This ladder proved to be a precise and reliable tool in the analysis of 600 chromosomes of the Austrian population. The population investigated showed no deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (P = 0.23). |
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