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However, since individual mutations do not tend to confer pan-antagonist resistance, the development of real-time strategies to monitor for AR mutation emergence could guide rational sequencing of AR pathway inhibitors.
Although sequencing cell-free DNA from blood samples may not be sensitive enough when tumor burden is low, it does provide a minimally invasive way of monitoring resistance mutations for patients receiving CPB.
To address the recognized need for rapid, low-cost diagnosis, tracking critically important genetic changes in the virus among animal and human host populations, and identifying specific viral clades [4], we have developed high-throughput methods for monitoring viral mutations that may control virulence and transmissibility in humans [5].
Among the 47 avian-human signatures, they found that 8 (one in PB1, one in PB2, 2 in PA and 4 in NP) showed human-characteristic signatures, which may serve as a molecular marker for monitoring adaptive mutations in the influenza viruses [7].
177 PCR-based methods can be performed for monitoring the mutations in the AD risk factor genes.
Evolutionary methods can be useful also for the analyses of somatic hypermutation in antibody sequences during antibody maturation, or for monitoring somatic mutations in cancerous tissues [ 84- 87].
Conclusions: Monitoring for the accumulation of unique mutations within the genome of drug resistant HBV mutants isolated during long term antiviral therapy appears warranted in the clinical management of patients with CHB.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the LiPA HIV-1 RT assay version 1 for monitoring drug resistance mutations in comparison to full-length sequencing.
MAP provides a general tool for monitoring ultra-rare mutations in tissues and blood.
