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Quadruplex Genotyping of F5, F2, and MTHFR Variants in a Single Closed Tube by High-Resolution Amplicon Melting

¹ ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology; ² ARUP Laboratories, 500 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, and ³ Department of Pathology, University of Utah Medical School, 50 N Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132.

^aAddress correspondence to this author at: ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, 500 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108. Fax (801) 584-5114; e-mail seippmt{at}aruplab.com.

Background: Multiplexed amplicon melting is a closed-tube method for genotyping that does not require probes, real-time analysis, asymmetric PCR, or allele-specific PCR; however, correct differentiation of homozygous mutant and wild-type samples by melting temperature (T_m) analysis requires high-resolution melting analysis and controlled reaction conditions.

Methods: We designed 4 amplicons bracketing the F5 [coagulation factor V (proaccelerin, labile factor)] 1691G>A, MTHFR (NADPH) 1298A>C, MTHFR 677C>T, and F2 [coagulation factor II (thrombin)] 20210G>A gene variants to melt at different temperatures by varying amplicon length and adding GC- or AT-rich 5' tails to selected primers. We used rapid-cycle PCRs with cycles of 19–23 s in the presence of a saturating DNA dye and temperature-correction controls and then conducted a high-resolution melting analysis. Heterozygotes were identified at each locus by curve shape, and homozygous genotypes were assigned by T_m. We blinded samples previously genotyped by other methods before analysis with the multiplex melting assay (n = 110).

Results: All samples were correctly genotyped with the exception of 7 MTHFR 1298 samples with atypical melting profiles that could not be assigned. Sequencing revealed that these 5 heterozygotes and 2 homozygotes contained the unexpected sequence variant MTHFR 1317T>C. The use of temperature-correction controls decreased the T_m SD within homozygotes by a mean of 38%.

Conclusion: Rapid-cycle PCR with high-resolution melting analysis allows simple and accurate multiplex genotyping to at least a factor of 4.

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