Genetic Fingerprinting

Recent technological advances in flow cytometry instrumentation provide the basis for high‐dimensionality and high‐throughput… Expand

Lyme borreliosis caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi is now the most common vectorborne disease in North America… Expand

Dideoxy fingerprinting is an efficient method for the detection of sequence variation in PCR-amplified DNA segments. It is a… Expand

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a clonal proliferation of dendritic histiocytes expressing elevated levels of tumor… Expand

Lung carcinoids occur sporadically and rarely in association with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1). There are no well… Expand

Germline mutations in the BRCA1 tumour suppressor gene on chromosome 17q21 are responsible for approximately half of the cases of… Expand

Detection of mutations in the rpoB gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis can be used as an accurate predictor of rifampin resistance… Expand

The goals of the present experiments are (1) to improve dideoxy fingerprinting (ddF) and (2) to utilize ddF as a tool to evaluate… Expand

Autosomal dominant neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus is a familial form of diabetes insipidus. This disorder is associated with… Expand

We describe dideoxy fingerprinting (ddF), a hybrid between dideoxy sequencing and SSCP that can detect the presence of single… Expand