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SUBMITTER: Paakkanen R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3380926 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Paakkanen Riitta R Vauhkonen Hanna H Eronen Katja T KT Järvinen Asko A Seppänen Mikko M Lokki Marja-Liisa ML
PloS one 20120621 6
Low protein levels and copy number variation (CNV) of the fourth component of human complement (C4A and C4B) have been associated with various diseases. High-throughput methods for analysing C4 CNV are available, but they commonly do not detect the most common C4A mutation, a silencing CT insertion (CTins) leading to low protein levels. We developed a SYBR® Green labelled real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) with a novel concentration range approach to address C4 CNV and defic ...[more]