Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 408, Issue 17, Pages 4575-4593Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-016-9513-0
Keywords
GMOs; UGMOs; PCR; NGS; Enrichment approaches
Funding
- European Commission
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With the increased global production of different genetically modified (GM) plant varieties, chances increase that unauthorized GM organisms (UGMOs) may enter the food chain. At the same time, the detection of UGMOs is a challenging task because of the limited sequence information that will generally be available. PCR-based methods are available to detect and quantify known UGMOs in specific cases. If this approach is not feasible, DNA enrichment of the unknown adjacent sequences of known GMO elements is one way to detect the presence of UGMOs in a food or feed product. These enrichment approaches are also known as chromosome walking or gene walking (GW). In recent years, enrichment approaches have been coupled with next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis and implemented in, amongst others, the medical and microbiological fields. The present review will provide an overview of these approaches and an evaluation of their applicability in the identification of UGMOs in complex food or feed samples.
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