Ultra–sensitive droplet digital PCR for detecting a low–prevalence somatic GNAQ mutation in Sturge–Weber syndrome

Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR), a method for measuring target nucleic acid sequence quantity, is useful for determining somatic mutation rates using TaqMan probes. In this study, the detection limit of copy numbers of test DNA by ddPCR was determined based on Poisson distribution. Peptide nucleic acid...

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Main Authors: Uchiyama, Yuri, Nakashima, Mitsuko, Watanabe, Satoshi, Miyajima, Masakazu, Taguri, Masataka, Miyatake, Satoko, Miyake, Noriko, Saitsu, Hirotomo, Mishima, Hiroyuki, Kinoshita, Akira, Arai, Hajime, Yoshiura, Ko–ichiro, Matsumoto, Naomichi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783707/