Accurate measurement of microsatellite length by disrupting its tandem repeat structure
Levy, D.; Wang, Z.; Moffitt, A.; Wigler, M. H.
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Replication of tandem repeats of simple sequence motifs, also known as microsatellites, is error prone and variable lengths frequently occur during population expansions. Therefore, microsatellite length variations could serve as markers for cancer. However, accurate error-free quantitation of microsatellite lengths is difficult with current methods because of a high error rate during amplification and sequencing. We have solved this problem by using partial mutagenesis to disrupt enough of the repeat structure so that it can replicate faithfully, yet not so much that the flanking regions cannot be reliably identified. In this work we use bisulfite mutagenesis to convert a C to a U, later read as T. Compared to untreated templates, we achieve three orders of magnitude reduction in the error rate per round of replication. By requiring two independent first copies of an initial template, we reach error rates below one in a million. We discuss potential clinical applications of this method.
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