Journal
BLOOD CELLS MOLECULES AND DISEASES
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 151-158Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2010.12.002
Keywords
Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Hemophilia A; F8; Intron 22 inversion; Molecular diagnosis
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- Bayer Haemophilia Award Special Project Grant
- Cancer Society of New Zealand
- New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission
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The factor VIII intron 22 inversion is the most common cause of hemophilia A, accounting for approximately 40% of all severe cases of the disease. Southern hybridization and multiplex long distance PCR are the most commonly used techniques to detect the inversion in a diagnostic setting, although both have significant limitations. Here we describe our experience establishing a multicolor fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) based assay as an alternative to existing methods for genetic diagnosis of the inversion. Our assay was designed to apply three differentially labelled BAC DNA probes that when hybridized to interphase nuclei would exhibit signal patterns that are consistent with the normal or the inversion locus. When the FISH assay was applied to five normal and five inversion male samples, the correct genotype was assignable with p<0.001 for all samples. When applied to carrier female samples the assay could not assign a genotype to all female samples, probably due to a lower proportion of informative nuclei in female samples caused by the added complexity of a second X chromosome. Despite this complication, these pilot findings show that the assay performs favourably compared to the commonly used methods. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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