- Title
- A simplified method to calculate telomere length from Southern blot images of terminal restriction fragment lengths
- Creator
- Lincz, Lisa F.; Scorgie, Fiona E.; Garg, Madhu B.; Gilbert, Jayne; Sakoff, Jennette A.
- Relation
- BioTechniques Vol. 68, Issue 1, p. 28-34
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2144/btn-2019-0082
- Publisher
- Future Science
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Southern blotting of DNA terminal restriction fragment lengths is the gold standard for measuring mean telomere length. Analysis of the final image is a crucial step in this process, however, current techniques are cumbersome and prone to error. Here we present a simple and accurate method for analyzing telomere smears. Basic 2D gel imaging software was used to automatically subtract background, generate standard curves and calculate net intensity and MW at each position (i) along the telomere smear. Our method required no statistical software or major data manipulation and correctly classified >80% of 18 samples as having short, medium or long telomeres compared with 33–72% using other methods.
- Subject
- cancer cell lines; mean telomere length; net intensity; peripheral blood; Southern blot; terminal restriction fragment length
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1426160
- Identifier
- uon:38373
- Identifier
- ISSN:0736-6205
- Rights
- This work is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Language
- eng
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