A Robust Polymerase Chain Reaction-based Assay for Quantifying Cytosine-guanine-guanine Trinucleotide Repeats in Fragile X Mental Retardation-1 GeneHuilin Wang *1, Xiaofan Zhu *2,3, Baoheng Gui *3,4, Wan Chee Cheung 2, Mengmeng Shi 2,3, Zhenjun Yang 2,3, Ka Yin Kwok 2, Ricky Lim 5, Sanna Pietilä 5, Yuanfang Zhu 6,7, Kwong Wai Choy 2,3
1Central Laboratory, Bao'an Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Jinan University, 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 3Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 4Department of Genetics and Metabolism, Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, 5PerkinElmer Diagnostics, 6Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bao'an Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Jinan University, 7Maternal-Fetal Medicine Institute, Bao'an Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Jinan University
An accurate and robust polymerase chain reaction-based assay for quantifying cytosine-guanine-guanine trinucleotide repeats in the Fragile X mental retardation-1 gene facilitates molecular diagnosis and screening of Fragile X syndrome and Fragile X-related disorders with shorter turn-around time and investment in equipment.
