ArticleMolecular genetics & genomic medicine2021
High throughput screening for expanded CTG repeats in myotonic dystrophy type 1 using melt curve analysis.
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- Long-read sequencing for neurological disorders: opportunities, challenges, and future directions.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Review
- Interrupted CTG repeats in the 37-43 units size range in the 3'UTR of DMPK are common alleles.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2025Article
- The genetic and phenotypic spectra of adult genetic leukoencephalopathies in a cohort of 309 patients.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2023Article
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- Population-Based Prevalence of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Using Genetic Analysis of Statewide Blood Screening Program.Neurology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundMyotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by CTG repeat expansions in the DMPK gene and is the most common form of muscular dystrophy. Patients can have long delays from onset to diagnosis, since clinical signs and symptoms are often nonspecific and overlapping with other disorders. Clinical genetic testing by Southern blot or triplet-primed PCR (TP-PCR) is technically challenging and cost prohibitive for population surveys.
methodsHere, we present a high throughput, low-cost screening tool for CTG repeat expansions using TP-PCR followed by high resolution melt curve analysis with saturating concentrations of SYBR GreenER dye.
resultsWe determined that multimodal melt profiles from the TP-PCR assay are a proxy for amplicon length stoichiometry. In a screen of 10,097 newborn blood spots, melt profile analysis accurately reflected the tri-modal distribution of common alleles from 5 to 35 CTG repeats, and identified the premutation and full expansion alleles.
conclusionWe demonstrate that robust detection of expanded CTG repeats in a single tube can be achieved from samples derived from specimens with minimal template DNA such as dried blood spots (DBS). This technique is readily adaptable to large-scale testing programs such as population studies and newborn screening programs.
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