Neurogenetics

• Quantitative PCR.- Determination of Gene Dosage.- Semiquantitative PCR for the Detection of Exon Rearrangements in the Parkin Gene.- Trinucleotide Repeat Detection.- Detection of FMR1 Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion Mutations Using Southern Blot and PCR Methodologies.- Extreme Expansion Detection in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 and Type 7.- Repeat Expansion Detection (RED) and the RED Cloning Strategy.- Repeat Analysis Pooled Isolation and Detection (RAPID) Cloning of Microsatellite Expansions.- DIRECT Technologies for Molecular Cloning of Genes Containing Expanded CAG Repeats.- Antibody-Based Detection of CAG Repeat Expansion Containing Genes.- Detection of Trinucleotide Repeat Containing Genes by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI) Mass Spectrometry.- Fluorescence PCR and GeneScan® Analysis for the Detection of CAG Repeat Expansions Associated with Huntington’s Disease.- Sequence-Based Mutation Detection.- Molecular Detection of Galactosemia Mutations by PCR-ELISA.- Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Sequence Analyses for MECP2 Mutations in Rett Syndrome.- Multiplexed Fluorescence Analysis for Mutations Causing Tay-Sachs Disease.- Single-Strand Conformational Polymorphism Analysis (SSCP) and Sequencing for Ion Channel Gene Mutations.- Pulse Field Gel Electrophoresis for the Detection of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Gene Rearrangements.- Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) for Mutation Detection in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).- Genetic Diagnosis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease.- Analysis of Human Mitochondrial DNA Mutations.- Detection of Mitochondrial DNA Mutations Associated with Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy.- Molecular Detection of Imprinted Genes.- PCR-Based Strategies for the Diagnosis ofPrader-Willi/Angelman Syndromes.- Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH).- Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) for Identifying the Genomic Rearrangements Associated with Three Myelinopathies.- In Vitro Expression Systems and Studies of Protein Expression and Function.- Drosophila Models of Polyglutamine Diseases.- A Comparative Gene Expression Analysis of Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy Using a cDNA Microarray.- The COS-7 Cell In Vitro Paradigm to Study Myelin Proteolipid Protein 1 Gene Mutations.- In Vitro Expression Systems for the Huntington Protein.- Heterologous Expression of Ion Channels.- An Assay for Characterizing In Vitro the Kinetics of Polyglutamine Aggregation.- Characterization of Prion Proteins.- Detection of NF1 Mutations Utilizing the Protein Truncation Test (PTT).- Application of the Protein Truncation Test (PTT) for the Detection of Tuberosis Sclerosis Complex Type 1 and 2 (TSC1 andTSC2) Mutations.- Development and Characterization of Antibodies that Immunoprecipitate the FMR1 Protein.- Immunological Methods for the Analysis of Protein Expression in Neuromuscular Diseases.

"This book provides detailed laboratory methods in its of 32 chapters. Each chapter provides sufficient detail to allow the duplication of the laboratory method. The emphasis is on neurogenetic diseases and the methods are all molecular biological including PCR, DNA sequencing, Western Blot, and Southern Blot. Diseases covered include Huntington's disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, Rett's Syndrome, Leber's Optic Atrophy, spinocerebellar ataxias, Parkinson's disease, and neurological mitochondrial diseases. This is a unique and highly useful book that details laboratory methods in more detail than any comparable book. Laboratory scientists and investigators who wish to use neurogenetic laboratory methods to study these disorders will find great value in this compendium of methodologies."-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal