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Employing Digital Droplet PCR to Detect BRAF V600E Mutations in Formalin-fixed Paraffin-embedded Reference Standard Cell Lines
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Employing Digital Droplet PCR to Detect BRAF V600E Mutations in Formalin-fixed Paraffin-embedded Reference Standard Cell Lines
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10:16 min

October 08, 2015

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 01:23DNA Extraction from FFPE Reference Standard Cell Lines
  • 03:33Digital Droplet PCR: Droplet Generation
  • 05:56Digital Droplet PCR: PCR Amplification
  • 07:36Digital Droplet PCR: Droplet Reading and DNA Mutation Profiling
  • 08:28Results: ddPCR Detects BRAF V600E Mutations in FFPE Reference Standard Cell Lines
  • 09:20Conclusion

Summary

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The goal of this video is to demonstrate how to perform automated DNA extraction from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) reference standard cell lines and digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) analysis to detect rare mutations in a clinical setting. Detecting mutations in FFPE samples demonstrates the clinical utility of ddPCR in FFPE samples.

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