Emerging Techniques for Thalassemia Gene Detection

Isothermal nucleic acid amplification is a simple process that rapidly and efficiently accumulates nucleic acid sequences at constant temperature such as 37 and 42°C. Isothermal nucleic acid amplification approach offers several advantages over temperature circle methods (such as PCR) including rapid assay results, cost-effectiveness, and portability. Two detection approaches based on circular strand-displacement polymerization reaction (CSDPR) were presented in this chapter for sensitive and specific thalassemia gene detection. One is a lateral flow strip biosensor based on CSDPR for semi-quantitative detection of thalassemia DNA. The other is a spectrophotometric DNA detection approach based on CSDPR for quantitative detection of thalassemia DNA.