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There is an increasing need for practical, efficient, and inexpensive ways to explore inherited mutations responsible for genetic diseases, acquired mutations involved in cancer development, and induced mutations in mutational spectrometry. Most of the current methods used for mutation screening are based on PCR, and this has solved the problem of target limitation. Simple and efficient methods such as allele-specific hybridization, allele-specific amplification, ligation, primer extension and artificial introduction of restriction sites, and variants of these methods have been developed for screening large numbers of samples for one particular mutation (for review see Cotton, 1993).
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Børresen, AL. (1996). Constant Denaturant Gel Electrophoresis (CDGE) in Mutation Screening. In: Pfeifer, G.P. (eds) Technologies for Detection of DNA Damage and Mutations. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0301-3_20
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