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Establishment of New Genetic Markers and Methods for Sex Determination of Mouse and Human Cells using Polymerase Chain Reactions and Crude DNA Samples

Author(s): Keyin Zhang, Jianglin Yang, Zhenwei Qin, Tianzu Lu, Didong Lou, Qianchuan Ran, Hai Huang, Shuqiang Cheng, Lucas Zellmer, Hong Ma* and Dezhong J. Liao*

Volume 23, Issue 4, 2022

Published on: 21 June, 2022

Page: [275 - 288] Pages: 14

DOI: 10.2174/1389202923666220610121344

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Abstract

Background: The currently available methods for sexing human or mouse cells have weaknesses. Therefore, it is necessary to establish new methods.

Methods: We used bioinformatics approach to identify genes that have alleles on both the X and Y chromosomes of mouse and human genomes and have a region showing a significant difference between the X and Y alleles. We then used polymerase chain reactions (PCR) followed by visualization of the PCR amplicons in agarose gels to establish these genomic regions as genetic sex markers.

Results: Our bioinformatics analyses identified eight mouse sex markers and 56 human sex markers that are new, i.e. are previously unreported. Six of the eight mouse markers and 14 of the 56 human markers were verified using PCR and ensuing visualization of the PCR amplicons in agarose gels. Most of the tested and untested sex markers possess significant differences in the molecular weight between the X- and Y-derived PCR amplicons and are thus much better than most, if not all, previously-reported genetic sex markers. We also established several simple and essentially cost-free methods for extraction of crude genomic DNA from cultured cells, blood samples, and tissues that could be used as template for PCR amplification.

Conclusion: We have established new sex genetic markers and methods for extracting genomic DNA and for sexing human and mouse cells. Our work may also lend some methodological strategies to the identification of new genetic sex markers for other organismal species.

Keywords: Sex determination, DNA extraction, genetic sex marker, genomic DNA, X chromosome, Y chromosome.

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