ref improve date February 2012 orphan date January 2010 M ultiple L oci V NTR A nalysis MLVA is a method employed for the genetic analysis of particular microorganisms, such as pathogenic bacteria, that takes advantage of the polymorphism of tandemly repeated DNA sequences. VNTR means Variable Number of Tandem Repeats . This method is well known in forensic science since it is the basis of DNA fingerprinting in humans. When applied to bacteria, it contributes to forensic microbiology through which the source of a particular strain might eventually be traced back. In a typical MLVA assay, a number of well selected and characterised in terms of mutation rate and diversity loci are amplified by polymerase chain reaction PCR so that the size of each locus can be measured. From this size, the number of repeat units at each locus can be deduced. The resulting information is a code which can be easily compared to reference databases. Some MLVA associated web sites http minisatellites.u psud.fr MLVAnet http minisatellites.u psud.fr http mlva.u psud.fr http www.mlva.eu http www.umcutrecht.nl subsite MLVA http miru vntrplus.org http www.pasteur.fr recherche genopole PF8 mlva http mlva.net Category Repetitive DNA sequences fr MLVA ... more details
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