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Detecting familial defective apolipoprotein B-100: three molecular scanning methods compared

Bryony G. Henderson, Philip R. Wenhama, J. Peter Ashby and Gillian Blundell

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK.
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Familial defective apolipoprotein (apo) B-100 (FDB), a condition that may give rise to hypercholesterolemia, is caused by mutations around codon 3500 of the apo B gene. We have compared the ability of three molecular-scanning techniques, heteroduplex analysis, single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis, and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), to detect these mutations in a cohort of 432 hypercholesterolemic individuals. Heteroduplex analysis and DGGE detected 11 individuals with apo B mutations, 9 of whom were heterozygous for apo B R3500Q and 2 who were heterozygous for apo B R3531C. Whereas DGGE was able to distinguish between these two mutations, heteroduplex analysis was technically simpler and gave a higher sample throughput. In contrast, SSCP analysis detected only 7 of the R3500Q and none of the R3531C heterozygotes and was the most complex of the three techniques. We believe heteroduplex analysis to be the method of choice for screening large numbers of samples for FDB.




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