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Asked 1st Mar, 2017

Materials for gene scan?

Hi All,
I just had a quick question for about genome sequences and gene scan. I was wondering in order to perform gene scan, is whole genome sequence required as the experimental material? Is it possible to do gene scan with ddRAD sequencing?
Hope someone can help me out. Really appreciate it!
Thanks.
Jing

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Felipe Garcia Vallejo
Universidad del Valle (Colombia)
Double Digest Restriction Associated DNA (ddRAD) Sequencing. Is a protocol that builds on the RADseq which differs in two principal respects: First, eliminates random shearing and end repair of genomic DNA (an advantage shared with a family of partially overlapping protocols such as MSG, CrOPS, and other recent RADseq derivatives.  Instead, it  use a double restriction enzyme (RE) digest resulting in at least five-fold reduction in library production cost–complete ddRADseq libraries cost ∼$5 per sample.  Furthermore, the elimination of several high-DNA-loss steps permits construction of ddRAD libraries from 100 ng or less of starting DNA. Second, introduced a precise selection for genomic fragments by size, which allows greater fine-scale control of the fraction of regions represented in the final library. By combining precise and repeatable size selection with sequence-specific fragmentation, double digest Restriction-Site Associated DNA sequencing (ddRADseq) produces sequencing libraries consisting of only the subset of genomic restriction digest fragments generated by cuts with both Res and which fall within the size-selection window. This combination of requirements can be tuned to generate libraries consisting of fragments derived from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of regions genome-wide. ( Source From Brant K. Peterson, Jesse N. Weber, Emily H. Kay, Heidi S. Fisher, Hopi E. Hoekstr. Double Digest RADseq: An Inexpensive Method for De Novo SNP Discovery and Genotyping in Model and Non-Model Species. PLoS ONE. May 2012 ; 7; 5) :e37135)
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