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San-Zhen Liu

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[Detecting genetic polymorphisms of CYP1 A1 and GSTM1 simultaneously with oligonucleotide microarray].

Cytochrome P4501A1 plays a major role in the bioactivation of a number of tobacco procarcinogens. Glutathione S-transferase( GSTM1), a member of the class of GST gene family, has been shown to be polymorphic because of gene deletion resulting in a failure to express the GSTM1 gene in 50% approximately 60% of individuals. Some CYP1 A1/GSTM1 null genotype combinations seem to predispose the lung, esophagus, and oral cavity of smokers to an even higher risk for cancer or DNA damage, requiring, however, confirmation. An easy and reliable oligonuleotide microarray approach validated through direct sequencing method is developed in order to accurately detect single nucleotide polymorphisms of CYP1 A1 gene and discriminate the presence and absence of GSTM1 gene. The m1 (Msp I) and m2 (Ile462Val) polymorphisms of CYP1 A1 gene and GSTM1 null genotype were also determined in a random population of 84 healthy, unrelated volunteers with developed microarray-based method. Of 84 cases, 47.6% were calssified as GSTM1 null, close to the published data. It's interesting that there lack three genotypes of m1 -m2 locus in the population: TT-AG, TT-GG and TC-GG. However, according to the data of the genotype frequencies independently happened at both m1 and m2 site, the combination frequencies of above three genotypes are 11.4%, 2.6%, and 3.1% respectively. Therefore we assume that the haplotypes of m1 -m2 are only T-A, C-A and C-G, but not T-G, as it were,there is no recombination happened between m1 site and m2 site. The frequencies of three haplotypes of T-A, C-A and C-G, calculated through corresponding genotypes, are 69.6%, 7.7% and 22.6% respectively.

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[Validation of cDNA microarray technology].

cDNA microarray is a technological approach that has the potential to globally measure changes in mRNA expression levels. Self-comparison experiments with the same kind of tissue and differential expression experiments with the different kinds of tissue have been done to verify the reproducibility and the accuracy of this technique. The parameter of the reliability and the reproducibility of the microarray data were analyzed by correlation coefficient (R), coefficient of variation (CV) and false positive rate (FPR) etc. Meanwhile, the error resource also has been inspected. These results showed that generally the correlation coefficient of data from this cDNA microarray system was more than 0.9, the coefficient of variation was about 15%, and the false positive rate was below 3%. The result proves the accuracy of the cDNA microarray data. Consistence rate (CR) was advanced here as a new parameter to evaluate the reproducibility of two replicate experiments. It has some advantages over correlation coefficient and coefficient of variation. The influence of some important factors in the experiments, such as different concentration of spotted DNA, mRNA and total RNA, different batches of slides and different processes of labeling, have been investigated by comparing the results. It was shown that most of the false position produced by the experiment system could be reduced by replicate experiments.

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