title: Genotyping interleukin-10 high and low producers with single-tube bidirectional allele-specific amplification.
abstract: A simple bidirectional allele-specific PCR method is described for determining the -1082 A and G alleles in the interleukin-10 (IL-10) promoter region. This polymorphism is associated with IL-10 production capacity, and it is thus interesting to see whether different infectious and autoimmune conditions are associated with it. With our method, the A and G alleles may be studied simultaneously in a single PCR reaction, as amplification of the different alleles is performed by using 3'-mismatched and partly overlapping allele-specific upstream and downstream primers around the -1082 site. The fast and simple method described here is especially suitable for large-scale association studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. jari.karhukorp@oulo.fi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Karhukorpi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Karttunen
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D016753:Interleukin-10 / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic
chemical_list: D016753:Interleukin-10