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Clinical Chemistry 54: 990-999, 2008. First published April 10, 2008; 10.1373/clinchem.2007.100487
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Molecular Diagnostics and Genetics

Design and Application of Noncontinuously Binding Probes Used for Haplotyping and Genotyping

Genevieve Pont-Kingdon1,a, Rebecca L. Margraf1, Kelli Sumner1, Alison Millson1, Elaine Lyon1,2 and Ekkehard Schütz3

1 ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA;2 Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA;3 Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.

aAddress correspondence to this author at: Dr. Pont-Kingdon, ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories. 500 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108. E-mail pontkig{at}aruplab.com.

Background: Many methods for genotyping use melting temperature (Tm) of sequence-specific probes. Usually the probes hybridize to a continuous stretch of DNA that contains the variant(s). In contrast, hybridization of noncontinuous probes to a template can form bulges. This report generates guidelines for the design of noncontinuous probes.

Methods: We used software to predict hybridization structures and Tms from 10 noncontinuous probes and 54 different templates. Predicted Tms were compared to existing experimental data. The bulging template’s sequences (omitted in the probe) ranged in size from 1 to 73 nucleotides. In 36 cases, we compared observed and predicted {Delta}Tms between alleles complementary to the probe and mismatched alleles. In addition, using software that predicts effects of bulges, we designed a probe and then tested it experimentally.

Results: The mean differences between predicted and observed Tms were 0.65 (2.51) °C with the Visual OMP software and 0.28 (1.67) °C with the MeltCalc software. {Delta}Tms were within a mean (SD) of 0.36 (1.23) °C (Visual OMP) and –0.01 (1.02) °C (MeltCalc) of observed values. An increase in the size of the template bulge resulted in a decrease in Tms. In 2 templates, the presence of a variant in the bulge influenced the experimental Tm of 2 noncontinuous probes, a result that was not predicted by the software programs.

Conclusions: The use of software prediction should prove useful for the design of noncontinuous probes that can be used as tools for molecular haplotyping, multiplex genotyping, or masking sequence variants.






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