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By Eric Engel, Stylianos E. Antonarakis

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Eric Engel and Stylianos Antonarakis have written the main authoritative and important reference on molecular and medical facets of uniparental disomy (UPD) and genomic imprinting to this point. Genomic Imprinting and Uniparental Disomy in drugs positive aspects accomplished overviews of a mess of genetic problems associated with UPD, with a robust emphasis on scientific outcomes. This e-book will offer readers with the instruments essential to determine and deal with illnesses linked to nontraditional chromosomal inheritance. Genomic Imprinting and Uniparental Disomy in medication positive aspects convenient tables summarizing medical phenotypes and chromosomal involvement in UPD, in addition to transparent illustrations on imprinting mechanisms and diagnostic checking out. This authoritative, thoroughly up to date functional reference should be necessary for any scientific geneticist, genetic counselor, health care provider, or researcher encountering sufferers with such issues or learning complicated affliction mechanisms.

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There exist several types of DNA polymorphisms. (i) Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). , 2001). Millions of SNPs exist in the human genome and could be detected by several methods (Dean, 1995). The sequence of the human genome revealed 13 14 DETECTION OF UNIPARENTAL DISOMY AND IMPRINTING BY DNA ANALYSIS more than a million of potential SNPs. , 2001). gov=SNP=>. , there exist two different alleles in the population. , 1980). (ii) Variable number of short sequence repeats (SSR) or microsatellites.

L. and Wallace, R. B. Detection of sickle cell beta S-globin allele by hybridization with synthetic oligonucleotides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 80:278–282, 1983. Cotton, R. , Rodrigues, N. R. and Campbell, R. D. Reactivity of cytosine and thymine in single-base-pair mismatches with hydroxylamine and osmium tetroxide and its application to the study of mutations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 85:4397–4401, 1988. Dean, M. Resolving DNA mutations [news]. Nat Genet 9:103–104, 1995. Delach, J. , Rosengren, S.

Unmodified, cytosines and therefore their PCR product is only maternal-specific since these oligonucleotides do not bind the modified DNA. , modified, cytosine to uracil residues. Their PCR product is only paternalspecific since these oligonucleotide primers do not bind the unmodified DNA. The paternal or maternal allele-specific amplification is recognized by the specific size of the PCR amplification product. In PWS patients, a maternal methylation PCR pattern is only observed, either because there is a deletion of the paternally derived allele or an abnormal, maternal-type methylation status of the paternal allele.

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