title: Identifying patterns of DNA for tumor diagnosis using capillary electrophoresis-amplified fragment length polymorphism (CE-AFLP) screening.
abstract: Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) screening is a genome-wide genotyping strategy that has been widely used in plants and bacteria, but little has been reported concerning its use in humans. We investigated if the AFLP procedure could be coupled with high-throughput capillary electrophoresis (CE) for use in tumor diagnosis and classification. Using CE-AFLP, a series of molecular 'fingerprints' were generated for a set of gastric tumor and normal genomic DNA samples. The CE-AFLP procedure was qualitatively and quantitatively robust, and a variety of clustering tools were used to identify a specific DNA marker 'pattern' of 20 features that classified the tumor and normal samples to reasonable degrees of accuracy (Sensitivity 95%, Specificity 80%). The CE-AFLP-based approach also correctly classified 16 tumor samples, which in a previous study had exhibited no detectable genomic aberrations by comparative genome hybridization (CGH). This is the first reported application of CE-AFLP screening in tumor diagnosis. As the procedure is relatively inexpensive and requires minimal prior sequence knowledge and biological material, we suggest that CE-AFLP-based protocols may represent a promising new approach for DNA-based cancer screening and diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cellular and Molecular Research, National Cancer Centre of Singapore, 11 Hospital Drive, Singapore 169610, Singapore. wongky@gis.a-star.edu.sg
authors.forename: Kee Yew
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Yin Choy
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Chuan
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tham
authors.forename: Wai Ming
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm