title: Prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell disease by the technique of PCR.
abstract: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is prevalent in Central India and causes major morbidity and mortality. There is a lack of prenatal diagnostic facility near population affected with SCD. This is the pilot study in our region with the aim to establish prenatal diagnostic facility for the couples carrying sickle cell gene in Central India, in order to help them take an informed decision regarding fetus affected with SCD and also to calculate sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique in our set up with follow up high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of baby's blood sample. Fetal sampling was done by chorionic villous biopsy. Extracted DNA was subjected to amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS-PCR) to detect sickle cell mutation (GAG → GTG) in the sixth codon of β globin gene. Follow-up HPLC was done to detect baby's Hb pattern. Prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell anemia was offered in total 37 cases out of which one (2.7 %) fetal sample was inadequate. Total 26 (70.27 %) fetuses had AS Hb genotype, 3 (8.11 %) had AA Hb genotype and 3 (8.11 %) had SS Hb genotype while remaining 4 (10.81 %) were given AA/AS Hb genotype. All couples with SS fetuses opted for MTP. Follow up HPLC was performed in 24 cases, out of which 18 (75 %) were correlated and 6 (25 %) were mismatched. In present study sensitivity of ARMS-PCR was 75 %. ARMS-PCR is a simple technique to be established initially for providing rapid prenatal diagnosis to the couples with known sickle cell mutation. The sensitivity of ARMS-PCR can be increased by using suitable techniques to detect maternal cell DNA contamination.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, India.
authors.forename: Praneeta J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, India.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Shrivastava
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur, India.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Shrikhande
keywords: ARMS-PCR; CVS; Prenatal diagnosis; Sickle cell disease
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