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Application of random amplified polymorphic DNA PCR for genomic analysis of HIV-1-infected individuals.

Random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) is a DNA fingerprinting technique used to detect genomic polymorphisms. We employed sixteen different RAPD-PCR 10-mer primers to amplify DNA from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of 80 HIV-1-infected individuals. These individuals were previously identified as either heterozygotes (+ /delta32) and homozygotes (+/+) for the CCR5 locus by PCR with gene specific primers. Four of the sixteen randomly selected RAPD primers produced distinguishable banding profiles between CCR5 (+/delta32) heterozygotes and CCR5 (+/+ ) homozygotes. Direct sequencing of some RAPD-PCR products obtained with one of the four RAPD primers that were tested yielded clearly readable, but limited sequences, which were similar to portions of the previously published sequences for (+/+ ) homozygotes (98% similarity) and (+/delta32) heterozygotes (87% similarity) of the CCR5 alleles. Thus, the RAPD-PCR technique may be useful for the identification of human molecular markers that may correlate with susceptibility to HIV-1-infection, or differences in disease progression among HIV-l-infected individuals.[1]

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  1. Application of random amplified polymorphic DNA PCR for genomic analysis of HIV-1-infected individuals. Aikhionbare, F.O., Newman, C., Womack, C., Roth, W., Shah, K., Bond, V.C. Mutat. Res. (1998) [Pubmed]
 
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