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Method of detecting nucleotide sequences

  • US 5,595,890 A
  • Filed: 02/17/1995
  • Issued: 01/21/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for detecting the presence or absence of at least one variant nucleotide in one or more nucleic acids contained in a test sample from an individual, with reference to a control or controls, which method comprises the following steps:

  • treating the sample, together or sequentially, with appropriate nucleoside triphosphates, an agent for polymerization of the nucleoside triphosphates, a diagnostic primer for each diagnostic portion of a target base sequence and a corresponding amplification primer under hybridizing conditions,the nucleotide sequence of said diagnostic primer being such that it is substantially complementary to said diagnostic portion, a 31 terminal nucleotide of the diagnostic primer being either complementary to a suspected variant nucleotide or to the corresponding normal nucleotide, whereby an extension product of the diagnostic primer is synthesized when said terminal nucleotide of the diagnostic primer is complementary to the corresponding nucleotide in the target base sequence, no extension product being synthesized when the said terminal nucleotide of the diagnostic primer is not complementary to the corresponding nucleotide in the target base sequence;

    any extension product of the diagnostic primer formed being capable of serving as a template for synthesis of an extension product of said amplification primer after separation from its complement;

    amplifying any extension product; and

    detecting the presence or absence of the suspected variant nucleotide from the presence or absence of amplification product obtained as above, with reference to the control or controls.

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