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Anna Tjrnlund, Maria Andersson, Katarina Jood, Per Ladenvall, Christina Jern

Rapid genotyping of haemostatic gene polymorphisms using the 5 nuclease assay

Hemostatic gene polymorphisms have been shown to be associated with arterial and venous thrombotic disease. To date these polymorphisms have mainly been detected by labor-intensive conventional gel based methods. Aim of the present study was to design and optimize high throughput 5 nuclease assays for the detection of a set of 10 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in genes of importance for hemostasis: plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 -675 4G>5G, thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor Ala147Thr and 1,542C>G, -fibrinogen -455G>A, von Willebrand factor -1,051A>G, factor VII Arg353Gln, factor XIII Val34Leu, prothrombin 20,210G>A, tissue factor pathway inhibitor -287T>C, and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase 1,298A>C. Specificity of each genotyping assay was confirmed by sequence-based typing and reproducibility was evaluated by repeated genotyping. The genotyping protocols presented here may serve as a valuable tool for clinical researchers interested in exploring associations between these SNPs and thrombotic disease.

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Schattauer

Print ISSN: 0340-6245
Volume: 89, 05/2003
Pages: 936 - 942

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