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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2014

Sequence conservation of the region targeted by the Abbott RealTime HCV viral load assay.

Gavin Cloherty, Neil Parkin, James Rhoads, Claudia Esping, Corklin Steinhart, George Schneider, Lily Yuen, John Hackett

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Gavin ClohertyAbbott Molecular, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
Neil Parkin
James Rhoads
Claudia Esping
Corklin Steinhart
George Schneider
Lily Yuen
John Hackett

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Abbott RealTime (RT) HCV assay targets the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of the HCV genome. Here, we analyzed the sequence variability of the assay target regions from 1,092 specimens. Thermodynamic modeling of the percentage of primers/probes bound at the assay annealing temperature was performed to assess the potential effect of sequence variability. An analysis of this large data set revealed that the primer and probe binding sites of the RealTime HCV viral load assay are highly conserved and that naturally occurring sequence polymorphisms are not expected to discernibly impact assay performance.

Indexed as

Conserved SequencePolymorphism, Genetic5' Untranslated RegionsBase SequenceHepacivirusHepatitis CHumansRNA, ViralViral Load5' Untranslated RegionsRNA, Viral

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PMID24430453
PMCPMC3993474

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