Multiple Loci VNTR Analysis
Strain Typing of Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia afzelii, and Borrelia garinii by Using Multiple Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis
... (VNTR) loci present within the genome of Borrelia burgdorferi and subsequently developed a multiple-locus VNTR analysis (MLVA) typing system for this disease ...these loci, with ...
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Rapid Variable Number Tandem Repeat Genotyping for Mycobacterium leprae Clinical Specimens
... available, multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) has been explored as a tool for strain typing and identification of chains of transmission of ...(STR) loci ...
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Characterization of Shigella sonnei in Malaysia, an increasingly prevalent etiologic agent of local shigellosis cases
... (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) is a highly discriminative sequence- based subtyping tool and has been used to study the genetic relatedness among ...at multiple VNTR loci. The VNTR ...
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Characterization of Ancestral Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Multiple Genetic Markers and Proposal of Genotyping Strategy
... the analysis of polymorphisms in the direct-repeat region (19, 41); typing based on mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units and variable numbers of tandem repeats of genetic elements (MIRU-VNTR) at 12 ...
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Multiple locus VNTR analysis highlights that geographical clustering and distribution of Dichelobacter nodosus, the causal agent of footrot in sheep, correlates with inter country movements
... The MLVA scheme described here is simple to use, transferable be- tween laboratories, and has all the attributes required of a typing method suitable for use as an epidemiological tool to study the global distribution ...
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Identification and Characterization of Variable Number Tandem Repeats in the Yersinia pestis Genome
... Our analysis of the genome has identified numerous poten- tial VNTR loci and defined attributes related to their diversity in natural populations of ...genetic analysis of global diversity is ...
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Identification of Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR) Sequences in Acinetobacter baumannii and Interlaboratory Validation of an Optimized Multiple Locus VNTR Analysis Typing Scheme
... S-repeat VNTR loci are used, it could be advisable to perform multiplex PCR using fluorescent primers and to separate the products by means of high-precision capillary electrophoresis equipment such as a ...
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Identification of Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR) Sequences in Legionella pneumophila and Development of an Optimized Multiple Locus VNTR Analysis Typing Scheme
... phism of tandem repeats in L. pneumophila suggested that VNTRs could be used for genotyping (21) in spite of the fact that this species is much more genetically heterogeneous than other species for which MLVA can be ...
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Development of a Multiple-Locus Variable number of tandem repeat Analysis (MLVA) for Leptospira interrogans and its application to Leptospira interrogans serovar Australis isolates from Far North Queensland, Australia
... for VNTR loci from these ...used. VNTR is therefore applicable to a wide range of laboratories, including those which may have simple equipment such as thermal cyclers and agarose gel electrophoresis ...
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Variable Number Tandem Repeats That Are Useful in Genotyping Isolates of Salmonella enterica subsp enterica Serovars Typhimurium and Newport
... VNTR analysis, also referred to as multiple-locus VNTR analysis, has been utilized to genotype several species of bac- teria including various serotypes of ...eight VNTR ...
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Genotypes and Characteristics of Clustering and Drug Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates Collected in Heilongjiang Province, China
... (MIRU- VNTR), which is technically flexible to facilitate interlabora- tory comparison and database management, is well accepted and has recently been adapted to high-throughput techniques (7, ...different ...
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A Statistical Framework for Quantitative Trait Mapping
... initial analysis there are alternative approaches and there is interest of the data, additional genotyping was carried out in in developing new cross designs that might improve the regions of interest on all ...
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Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer
... success. Multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) of ...hybridization analysis of 23 strains from these three Burkholderia species avoided problems associated with ...
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THE MINIATURE COMPLEX IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
... Thus far all investigations of pseudoallelic loci have been carried out on multiple allelic loci, but since it appears that at a number of loci (e.g., lozenge) each[r] ...
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Introducing the Best Six Loci in Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable-Number Tandem Repeat (MIRU-VNTR) Typing for Mycobacterium TuberculosisGenotyping
... 33. Vasconcellos S, Acosta C, Gomes L, Conceiçao E, Lima K. Strain Classification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in Brazil Based on Genotypes Obtained by Spoligotyping, Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit ...
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DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID PROFILING Overview pdf
... or short tandem repeats (STRs) and they are probably the richest class of polymorphic loci available. Their ampli R cation conditions are simple and the size range of their alleles is usually narrow. They are then ...
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Joint Analysis of Multiple Gene Expression Traits to Map Expression Quantitative Trait Loci
... A multiple trait QTL analysis method using least squares was proposed by Knott and Haley (2000). The authors claim that this method is easier to implement and less com- putationally intensive compared to ...
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Genome-wide association analysis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma identifies pleiotropic risk loci.
... B-cell malignancies (BCM) originate from the same cell of origin, but at different maturation stages and have distinct clinical phenotypes. Although genetic risk variants for individual BCMs have been identified, an ...
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Original Article Genotyping and drug-resistance epidemiology of mycobacterium tuberculosis in Xuzhou, China
... of loci included 5 loci of exact tandem repeats (ETRs): ETR-A, -B, -C, -D, and -E; 8 MIRU loci: MIRU-10, -16, -23, -26, -27, -39, and -40; 3 Mtub loci: Mtub21, 30, and ...VNTR ...
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Proposal of a Consensus Set of Hypervariable Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit–Variable Number Tandem Repeat Loci for Subtyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Isolates
... the analysis of the hypervariable loci, the same electrophoresis platforms were used by the respective laboratories, using either previously published primers and protocols (14, 15, 30) (n ⫽ 3) or protocols ...
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