Method and kit for constructing plasma DNA sequencing library

Abstract

The disclosure relates a method and a kit for constructing a plasma Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing library. The method provided by the disclosure includes: extracting a plasma DNA; making the plasma DNA ligate to a sequencing linker, and purifying a ligation product; performing Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification for the purified ligation product, purifying the PCR amplification product, and obtaining the plasma DNA sequencing library, wherein, the method does not include the step of performing 5′-terminus phosphorylation for the plasma DNA. The kit provided by the disclosure includes: a reagent which ligates a plasma DNA to a sequencing linker, including the sequencing linker, a ligase and a ligation buffer; and reagents and instruments for purifying the ligation product; a reagent which performs PCR amplification for a purified ligation product, and reagents and instruments for purifying the PCR amplification product; wherein, the kit does not include the reagent which performs 5′-terminus phosphorylation for the plasma DNA. The disclosure simplifies the construction flow of a plasma DNA sequencing library, simplifies the experimental procedures, and makes the construction of the plasma sample library have lower cost, higher efficiency and faster speed, and is convenient for large-scale application.

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TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE APPLICATION[0001]The disclosure relates to a method and a kit for constructing a plasma Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing library, and in particular to a method and a kit for constructing a plasma DNA sequencing library for the second-generation high-throughput sequencing.[0002]Background of the application[0003]With the progress of science, the traditional Sanger sequencing cannot fully satisfy the needs of the research; the genome sequencing needs a sequencing technology which has lower cost, higher throughput and faster speed, so the second-generation sequencing technology is emerged at the right moment. The core idea of the second-generation sequencing technology is sequencing by synthesis, namely, to determine the DNA sequence by catching the mark of the newly-synthesized end; the existing technical platform mainly includes Roche / 454 FLX, Illumina / Solexa Genome Analyzer and Applied Biosystems SOLID system and the like. Taking Illumina product as an e...

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Benefits of technology

The patent text describes a new method for constructing a library of plasma DNA sequences that simplifies the process and reduces the cost. The method does not require the use of certain enzymes and reactions, making it more efficient and faster. This makes it easier to apply to large-scale applications.

Problems solved by technology

The limitation of these methods above is that the mutation site is not common in the crowd, therefore, these methods are only suitable for a part of crowd.

The advantage of the dPCR is that it does not depend on any mutation site; however, the accuracy of dPCR is insufficient , and also requires a large amount of blood samples, which increases the difficulty in sampling.

But because of high sequencing cost, the technologies have not yet been widespread used at present.

Meanwhile, the way of detecting the change of local copy number of the embryonic chromosomes from the maternal blood is an unsolved problem.

There are some advantages to detect the change of copy number of the fetal chromosomes from maternal plasma by the high-throughput sequencing; however, the high-throughput sequencing is expensive and cannot be popularized.

And the CV of sequencing also determines that the method is only suitable for a few chromosomes, such as chromosome 21# and chromosome 18#, but unsuitable for detecting the change of partial copy number of the chromosomes at present.

Such construction method of the plasma DNA sequencing library totally needs 6 main enzymes, 4 enzyme reaction systems, and cleaning and purifying for four times; therefore, it is high in cost and complex in operation, and requires more in operating capacity of the molecular biology for experimenter, and it is difficult to process multiple samples synchronously.

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