{"title":"Genotyping Interleukin-10 High and Low Producers with Single-Tube Bidirectional Allele-Specific Amplification","authors":"J. Karhukorpi, R. Karttunen","doi":"10.1159/000049184","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A simple bidirectional allele-specific PCR method is described for determining the -1082 A and G alleles in the interleukin-10 (IL-10) promoter region. This polymorphism is associated with IL-10 production capacity, and it is thus interesting to see whether different infectious and autoimmune conditions are associated with it. With our method, the A and G alleles may be studied simultaneously in a single PCR reaction, as amplification of the different alleles is performed by using 3′-mismatched and partly overlapping allele-specific upstream and downstream primers around the -1082 site. The fast and simple method described here is especially suitable for large-scale association studies.","PeriodicalId":77124,"journal":{"name":"Experimental and clinical immunogenetics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000049184","citationCount":"18","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Experimental and clinical immunogenetics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000049184","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A simple bidirectional allele-specific PCR method is described for determining the -1082 A and G alleles in the interleukin-10 (IL-10) promoter region. This polymorphism is associated with IL-10 production capacity, and it is thus interesting to see whether different infectious and autoimmune conditions are associated with it. With our method, the A and G alleles may be studied simultaneously in a single PCR reaction, as amplification of the different alleles is performed by using 3′-mismatched and partly overlapping allele-specific upstream and downstream primers around the -1082 site. The fast and simple method described here is especially suitable for large-scale association studies.