Human Y- chromosome SNP characterization by multiplex amplified product-length polymorphism analysis.

JURADO MEDINA LS; M. MUZZIO; SCHWAB ME; MARÍA LETICIA BRAVI CONSTANTINO; GUILLERMO BARRETO; BAILLIET G

ELECTROPHORESIS

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

Lugar: Weinheim; Año: 2014 vol. 35 p. 2524 - 2527

0173-0835

We designed an allele-specific amplification protocol to optimize Y-chromosome SNP typing, which is an unavoidable step for defining the phylogenetic status of paternal lineages. It allows the simultaneous highly-specific definition of up to six mutations in a single reaction by amplifying products of different size (APLPs) without the need of specialized equipment, at a considerably lower cost than that based on single-base primer extension (SNaPshot?) technology or PCR-RFPL systems, requiring as little as 0.5 ng DNA and compatible with the small fragments characteristic of low-quality DNA. By designation of 2 primers recognizing the derived and ancestral state for each SNP, which can be differentiated by size by the addition of a non-complementary nucleotide tail, we could define major Y clades E, F, K, R, Q, and subhaplogroups R1, R1a, R1b, R1b1b, R1b1c, J1, J2, G1, G2, I1, I2, Q1a3, and Q1a3a1 through amplification fragments that ranged between 60 and 158bp.