title: Technical validation of a multiplex platform to detect thirty mutations in eight genetic diseases prevalent in individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study determines the analytic accuracy of a Luminex bead-based commercial analyte-specific reagent for the simultaneous analysis of 30 mutations prevalent in Ashkenazi Jews at eight genetic disease loci.
  
  
  METHODS
  DNA from 20 samples with known abnormal genotypes were run a total of 109 times. DNA from 820 patients with unknown genotypes submitted for Ashkenazi Jewish testing panels were analyzed using our current laboratory techniques. The 820 samples were then stripped of identifiers, coded, and reanalyzed using the Tm Biosciences (Toronto, Canada) Ashkenazi Jewish panel analyte-specific reagent in a blinded fashion. For the controls, comparisons were made with their known genotypes. For the patient samples, the results of the Tm assay were compared with the results of our current assay. For 24 of the 30 mutations, we had genomic DNA controls or detected patients' samples heterozygous for these mutations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were no discrepant results in the control or patient samples. In the patient samples, 19,680 genotyping reactions were performed without error in both our laboratory-developed single-disease assays and the Tm multiplex assay. Including the controls, 22,296 genotypes were determined without error.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Tm Biosciences Ashkenazi Jewish analyte-specific reagent is capable of performing accurate analyses of 24 different mutations in eight different genes in a single multiplex reaction and can be used with confidence in the clinical molecular genetics laboratory.
authors.affiliation: Genetic Testing Center, Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92690, USA.
authors.forename: Charles M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Strom
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Janeczko
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Joy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Redman
authors.forename: Franklin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Quan
authors.forename: Arlene
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buller
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: McGinniss
authors.forename: Wei Min
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis / Q000379:methods; D006580:Genetic Carrier Screening; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000235:genetics*; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007585:Jews / Q000235:genetics*; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D009841:Oligonucleotides