title: Quantitative technologies for allele frequency estimation of SNPs in DNA pools.
abstract: We have compared several genotyping methods to assess their applicability to single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) allele frequency estimation in DNA pools. The accuracy of these methods (restriction fragment length polymorphism, real-time pyrophosphate DNA sequencing, single base extension with fluorescently labeled ddNTPs, homogeneous 5'-nuclease assay, and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry) was tested by calculating the standard deviation among heterozygous individuals (which are natural DNA pools with 50% representation of each allele) and by estimating allele frequency in artificial pools. We show that although the methods differ in their accuracy, they can all serve for quantification of allele frequency in DNA pools with reasonable accuracy. We found that the influence of the error variance attributed to pool construction on quantification accuracy is insignificant and is SNP dependent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: Sagiv
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shifman
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pisanté-Shalom
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yakir
authors.forename: Ariel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Darvasi
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000483:Alleles; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D015203:Reproducibility of Results