| Literature DB >> 21892166 |
Peng Chen1, Dun Pan, Chunhai Fan, Jianhua Chen, Ke Huang, Dongfang Wang, Honglu Zhang, You Li, Guoyin Feng, Peiji Liang, Lin He, Yongyong Shi.
Abstract
Completion of the Human Genome Project and the HapMap Project has led to increasing demands for mapping complex traits in humans to understand the aetiology of diseases. Identifying variations in the DNA sequence, which affect how we develop disease and respond to pathogens and drugs, is important for this purpose, but it is difficult to identify these variations in large sample sets. Here we show that through a combination of capillary sequencing and polymerase chain reaction assisted by gold nanoparticles, it is possible to identify several DNA variations that are associated with age-related macular degeneration and psoriasis on significant regions of human genomic DNA. Our method is accurate and promising for large-scale and high-throughput genetic analysis of susceptibility towards disease and drug resistance.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21892166 DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.141
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Nanotechnol ISSN: 1748-3387 Impact factor: 39.213