Nature

MS-MLPA: an attractive alternative laboratory assay for robust, reliable, and semiquantitative detection of MGMT promoter hypermethylation in gliomas

Expression of the DNA repair protein O6-alkylguanine-DNA-alkyltransferase (AGT), encoded by the O6-methylguanine (O6-mG) -DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) DNA repair gene, results in resistance to ...
Nature

Computer-assisted prenatal aneuploidy screening for chromosome 13, 18, 21, X and Y based on multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA)

From mid-March to mid-November 2003, 1614 amniotic and chorionic villus samples (CVS) were referred to the Cytogenetic Laboratory for karyotyping and MLPA aneuploidy screening. Eight samples were ...
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Quantitative copy number analysis by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) of BRCA1-associated breast cancer regions identifies BRCAness, and as such ...

Improving detection methods for PIK3CA mutations in breast cancer using peripheral blood from patients with metastastic breast cancer (MBC). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2011 ASCO Annual ...
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Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA)

Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) is a method for detecting copy number changes using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). MLPA is unique in that it can detect copy number changes in ...