Journal: Nature

Article Title: Pathogenic exon-trapping by SVA retrotransposon and rescue in Fukuyama muscular dystrophy

doi: 10.1038/nature10456

Figure Lengend Snippet: An SVA retrotransposal insertion induces abnormal splicing in FCMD a, Expression analysis of various regions of fukutin mRNA in lymphoblasts. Gray bar, the ratio of RT-PCR product in FCMD patients relative to the normal control; Numbers on the X axis, nucleotide positions of both forward and reverse primers in fukutin . Error bars, s.e.m. b, Long range PCR using primers flanking the expression-decreasing area (nucleotide position 1061 to 5941) detected a 3-kb PCR product in FCMD lymphoblast cDNA (open arrow) and 8-kb product in FCMD genomic DNA (closed arrow). In the normal control, cDNA and genomic DNA both showed 5-kb PCR products. The 8-kb band was weak probably because VNTR region of SVA is GC-rich (82%). c, Schematic representation of genomic DNA and cDNA in FCMD. Black and white arrows, forward and reverse sequencing primers. The intronic sequence in FCMD is indicated in lower case. The authentic stop codon is colored in red, and the new stop codon is colored in blue. d, e, Northern blot analysis of fukutin in human lymphoblasts ( d ) and model mice ( e ). F, FCMD; N, nomal control. The wild-type mouse fukutin mRNA was detected at a size of 6.1 kb. Both skeletal muscle (left) and brain (right) showed smaller, abnormal bands (open arrows) in Hp/Hp mice. Wt, wild type; Hn, Hn/Hn mice; Hp, Hp/Hp mice. f, Schematic representation of genomic DNA and cDNA in ARH ( LDLRAP1 , left), NLSDM ( PNPLA2 , middle), and human ( AB627340 , right).

Article Snippet: To detect abnormally-spliced RT-PCR products from FCMD, ARH, and NLSDM patients, and from human brain AB627340 cDNA, long range PCR was performed using LA Taq with LA Taq Buffer II (Takara), adding dimethyl sulfoxide and 7-deaza-dGTP (Roche).

Techniques: Expressing, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequencing, Northern Blot, Mouse Assay

Journal: Nature

Article Title: Pathogenic exon-trapping by SVA retrotransposon and rescue in Fukuyama muscular dystrophy

doi: 10.1038/nature10456

Figure Lengend Snippet: AON cocktail rescues normal fukutin mRNA a, RT-PCR diagram of three primers designed to assess normal fukutin mRNA recovery (upper). Black closed arrow, a common forward primer located on fukutin coding region; black open arrow, a reverse primer to detect the abnormal RT-PCR product (161 bp); gray closed arrow, the other reverse primer to detect the restored normal RT-PCR product (129 bp). The effect on Hp/Hp ES cells treated with each single or a cocktail of AONs (lower). F, FCMD; N, normal sample. b, Rescue from abnormal splicing in VMO-treated in Hp/Hp mice and Hp/− mice. Local injection of AED cocktail into TA (n=3). Dys, a negative control. c, Rescue from abnormal splicing in VMO-treated human FCMD lymphoblasts (left, n=2) and myotubes (right, n=2). The Y axis shows the percent recovery of normal mRNA (* p

Article Snippet: To detect abnormally-spliced RT-PCR products from FCMD, ARH, and NLSDM patients, and from human brain AB627340 cDNA, long range PCR was performed using LA Taq with LA Taq Buffer II (Takara), adding dimethyl sulfoxide and 7-deaza-dGTP (Roche).

Techniques: Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction, Mouse Assay, Injection, Negative Control

Journal: BMC Medical Genetics

Article Title: High occurrence of BRCA1 intragenic rearrangements in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome in the Czech Republic

doi: 10.1186/1471-2350-8-32

Figure Lengend Snippet: Confirmation and characterization of the rearrangements . (A) Confirmation of the deletion of exons 1A/1B-2 by long-range PCR and sequencing of the breakpoints. (B) Confirmation of the deletion of exons 5–14 by long-range PCR and sequencing of the breakpoints. (C) Confirmation of the deletion of exons 11–12 by long-range PCR and sequencing of the breakpoints. Lanes 1+, 2+, carriers of the deletion; lane C-, negative control (wt); lane B, blank; lane M, marker (Ready-Load™ 1 Kb DNA Ladder, Invitrogen).

Article Snippet: Confirmation and characterization of the rearrangements Positive results detected by MLPA of two independently drawn samples of genomic DNA were confirmed by long-range PCR (Expand Long Template PCR System, Roche Applied Science), conducted in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.

Techniques: Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequencing, Negative Control, Marker

Journal: BMC Medical Genetics

Article Title: High occurrence of BRCA1 intragenic rearrangements in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome in the Czech Republic

doi: 10.1186/1471-2350-8-32

Figure Lengend Snippet: Confirmation and characterization of the rearrangements . (A) Confirmation of the deletion of exons 18–19 by long-range PCR and sequencing of the breakpoints. (B) Confirmation of the deletion of exon 20 and sequencing of the breakpoints.Lanes 1+, 2+, carriers of the deletion; lane C-, negative control (wt); lane B, blank; lane M, marker (Ready-Load™ 1 Kb DNA Ladder, Invitrogen).

Article Snippet: Confirmation and characterization of the rearrangements Positive results detected by MLPA of two independently drawn samples of genomic DNA were confirmed by long-range PCR (Expand Long Template PCR System, Roche Applied Science), conducted in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.

Techniques: Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequencing, Negative Control, Marker

Journal: BMC Medical Genetics

Article Title: High occurrence of BRCA1 intragenic rearrangements in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome in the Czech Republic

doi: 10.1186/1471-2350-8-32

Figure Lengend Snippet: Confirmation and characterization of the rearrangements . Confirmation of the deletion of the exons 21–22 by long-range PCR and sequencing of the breakpoints. The deletion/insertion event was characterized as g.77128_80906del3779ins236. Lanes 1+, 2+, carriers of the deletion; lane C-, negative control (wt); lane B, blank; lane M, marker (Ready-Load™ 1 Kb DNA Ladder, Invitrogen).

Article Snippet: Confirmation and characterization of the rearrangements Positive results detected by MLPA of two independently drawn samples of genomic DNA were confirmed by long-range PCR (Expand Long Template PCR System, Roche Applied Science), conducted in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.

Techniques: Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequencing, Negative Control, Marker

Journal: Heredity

Article Title: A new hybrid approach for MHC genotyping: high-throughput NGS and long read MinION nanopore sequencing, with application to the non-model vertebrate Alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra)

doi: 10.1038/s41437-018-0070-5

Figure Lengend Snippet: Laboratory procedure used to obtain MHC II DRB short and long amplicons, and assembly pipelines. The short amplicon was sequenced by standard Sanger sequencing (step 1), while the long amplicon was sequenced with Illumina MiSeq and nanopore MinION after gel extraction (step 2). The gene structure is based on Bos taurus (Ensembl: ENSBTAG00000013919) and Ovis aries (GenBank AM884914) structures. Boxes: coding regions, lines: introns, horizontal arrows: PCR primers

Article Snippet: More in detail, we designed primers on DRB exons 1 and 3 and set-up a long-range PCR coupled with Illumina NGS sequencing to a very high coverage.

Techniques: Amplification, Sequencing, Gel Extraction, Polymerase Chain Reaction