<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bortot, Barbara</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Athanasakis, Emmanouil</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brun, Francesca</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rizzotti, Diego</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mestroni, Luisa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sinagra, Gianfranco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Severini, Giovanni Maria</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High-throughput genotyping robot-assisted method for mutation detection in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diagn Mol Pathol</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diagn. Mol. Pathol.</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DNA Mutational Analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Predisposition to Disease</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Testing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genotyping Techniques</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Muscle Proteins</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mutation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Robotics</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011 Sep</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">20</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">175-9</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most frequent autosomal dominant genetic heart muscle disease and the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in young people (under 30 y of age), who are often unaware of their underlying condition. Genetic screening is now considered a fundamental tool for clinical management of HCM families. However, the high genetic heterogeneity of HCM makes genetic screening very expensive. Here, we propose a new high-throughput genotyping method based on a HCM 96-well sequencing plate for the analysis of 8 of the most frequent HCM-causing sarcomeric genes by automating several processes required for direct sequencing, using a commercially available robotic systems and routinely used instruments. To assess the efficiency of the robot-assisted method, we have analyzed the entire coding sequence and flanking intronic sequences of the 8 sarcomeric genes in samples from 18 patients affected by HCM and their relatives, which revealed 9 different mutations, 3 of which were novel. The automated, robot-assisted assembling of polymerase chain reaction, purification of polymerase chain reaction products, and assembly of sequencing reactions resulted in a substantial saving of time, reagent costs, and reduction of human errors, and can therefore be proposed as a primary strategy for mutation identification in HCM genetic screening in many medical genetic laboratories.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21817903?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>