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Massive parallel MHC genotyping: titanium that shines.
Journal article

Massive parallel MHC genotyping: titanium that shines.

  • Wegner KM Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), Experimental Ecology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. mathias.wegner@env.ethz.ch
  • 2009-03-26
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  • Molecular ecology. - 2009
Animals
Arvicolinae
Genetics, Population
Genome
Genotype
Major Histocompatibility Complex
Sequence Analysis, DNA
English The power of population genetic analyses is often limited by sample size resulting from constraints in financial resources and time to genotype large numbers of individuals. This particularly applies to nonmodel species where detailed genomic knowledge is lacking. Next-generation sequencing technology using primers 'tagged' with an individual barcode of a few nucleotides offers the opportunity to genotype hundreds of individuals at several loci in parallel (Binladen et al. 2007; Meyer et al. 2008). The large number of sequence reads can also be used to identify artefacts by frequency distribution thresholds intrinsically determined for each run and data set. In Babik et al. (2009), next-generation deep sequencing was used to genotype several major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class IIB loci of the European bank vole (Fig. 1). Their approach can be useful for many researchers working with complex multiallelic templates and large sample sizes.
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