title: Comparative analysis of the HV1 and HV2 regions of human mitochondrial DNA by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography.
abstract: Denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) was evaluated as a sequencing-independent means of detecting the presence of sequence differences in pair-wise mixtures of nonconcordant amplicons of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). A total of 920 pair-wise combinations of HV1 and HV2 mtDNA amplicons from 95 individuals were assayed by DHPLC for sequence concordance/nonconcordance. For the 72 combinations of amplicons from different individuals who shared identical DNA sequences, DHPLC assays consistently indicated sequence concordance between the samples. This was in 100% agreement with sequencing data. For the 849 combinations of amplicons which differed in sequence, DHPLC detected the presence of sequence nonconcordance in all but 13 assays to yield 98.5% concordance with sequencing. Thus, DHPLC can be used to detect a diversity of sequence differences (transitions, transversions, insertions, and deletions) in the mtDNA D-loop. Accordingly, DHPLC may have utility as a presumptive indicator of mtDNA sequence concordance samples, as a screen for heteroplasmy/situational mixtures, and as a means for the physical fractionation of the individual contributors to an mtDNA mixture prior to sequencing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, 2190 E. Iliff Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80208, USA. richard.kristinsson@nsm.du.edu
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kristinsson
authors.forename: Sarah E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: Phillip B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Danielson
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D022801:Complementarity Determining Regions / Q000235:genetics*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D053803:Forensic Genetics; D006801:Humans; D009691:Nucleic Acid Denaturation; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D022801:Complementarity Determining Regions; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial