OBJECTIVE@#To establish a
technique platform of DJ-1
gene exon rearrangement using
real-time PCR and to analyze DJ-1
gene exon rearrangement
mutation in
patients with autosomal recessive early-onset
Parkinsonism(AREP).@*
METHODS@#
Real-time PCR was used to analyze DJ-1
gene exon rearrangement
mutation in 22 probands with AREP from unrelated
Chinese Han
families and 30 normal controls.@*RESULTS@#We obtained satisfactory
real-time PCR reaction conditions and primers of DJ-1
gene coding exons No
exon rearrangement
mutation in the DJ-1
gene is detected in this group.@*CONCLUSION@#We established platform of DJ-1
gene exon rearrangement using
real-time PCR.
Exon rearrangement
mutation in the DJ-1
gene is rare in
Chinese patients with AREP.