Abstract
We have compared several genotyping methods to assess their applicability to single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) allele frequency estimation in DNA pools. The accuracy of these methods (restriction fragment length polymorphism, real-time pyrophosphate DNA sequencing, single base extension with fluorescently labeled ddNTPs, homogeneous 5′-nuclease assay, and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry) was tested by calculating the standard deviation among heterozygous individuals (which are natural DNA pools with 50% representation of each allele) and by estimating allele frequency in artificial pools. We show that although the methods differ in their accuracy, they can all serve for quantification of allele frequency in DNA pools with reasonable accuracy. We found that the influence of the error variance attributed to pool construction on quantification accuracy is insignificant and is SNP dependent.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 429-434 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Molecular and Cellular Probes |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - Dec 2002 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wish to thank Naomi Zak for her helpful comments. This work was supported by the FIRST foundation of the Israel Academy of Sciences.
Keywords
- Allele frequency
- Association
- DNA pooling
- SNPs