Denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography for mutation detection and genotyping

Abstract

Denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) is an accurate and efficient screening technique used for detecting deoxyribonucleic acid sequence changes by heteroduplex analysis. It can also be used for genotyping of single-nucleotide polymorphisms. The high-sensitivity of DHPLC has made this technique one of the most reliable approaches to mutation analysis and is used in various areas of genetics, both in the research and clinical arena. This chapter describes the methods used for mutation detection analysis and the genotyping of single-nucleotide polymorphisms by DHPLC on the WAVETM system from Transgenomic Inc.