1. Improved library preparation protocols for amplicon sequencing-based noninvasive fetal genotyping for RHD-positive D antigen-negative alleles
- Author
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Aiko Sasaki, Haruhiko Sago, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Kosuke Taniguchi, Aikou Okamoto, Akihiko Sekizawa, Asuka Hori, Ken Takahashi, Akihiro Kawashima, Kenichiro Hata, Ohsuke Migita, Fumio Takada, and Hiroko Ogata-Kawata
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RHD ,Science (General) ,Genotype ,QH301-705.5 ,Library preparation ,RhD positive ,Pcr cloning ,Computational biology ,Biology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Q1-390 ,Antigen ,Pregnancy ,Prenatal Diagnosis ,Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) ,Humans ,Allele ,Biology (General) ,Genotyping ,Alleles ,Amplicon sequencing ,Protocol (science) ,Unique molecular identifier (UMI) ,Rh-Hr Blood-Group System ,Reproducibility of Results ,Prenatal Care ,General Medicine ,Research Note ,Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) ,Medicine ,Female - Abstract
Objective We aimed to simplify our fetal RHD genotyping protocol by changing the method to attach Illumina’s sequencing adaptors to PCR products from the ligation-based method to a PCR-based method, and to improve its reliability and robustness by introducing unique molecular indexes, which allow us to count the numbers of DNA fragments used as PCR templates and to minimize the effects of PCR and sequencing errors. Results Both of the newly established protocols reduced time and cost compared with our conventional protocol. Removal of PCR duplicates using UMIs reduced the frequencies of erroneously mapped sequences reads likely generated by PCR and sequencing errors. The modified protocols will help us facilitate implementing fetal RHD genotyping for East Asian populations into clinical practice.
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- 2021