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PCR Detection of Tumor Cells 193<br />

Fig. 5. Example for a qPCR of a PB sample from a patient with MM. The specific PCR<br />

product is 85 bp. The highest dilution level at which all five replicates are PCR positive is<br />

11000, the lowest dilution level at which all five replicates are PCR negative is 110,000.<br />

Analysis of this pattern of PCR results by likelihood maximization and χ 2 -minimization yielded<br />

a result of 1.2% of malignant cells.<br />

3.6.1. Testing the Sensitivity of the Assay Using a Cell Line<br />

1. Design primers for a B-cell or myeloma cell line and test for specificity.<br />

2. Isolate DNA from cells of the cell line and from buffy coat of healthy donors and quantitate<br />

by OD measurement.<br />

3. Mix DNA from the cell line with buffy coat DNA to simulate samples with different<br />

proportions of malignant cells (100%, 10%, 1%, 0.1%, 0.01%, and 0.001%).<br />

4. Analyze all samples by qPCR (see Chapter 6.3.) using the appropriate ASO primers.<br />

5. Compare the results of the qPCR with the simulated tumor loads.<br />

3.6.2. Testing Primer Sensitivity by Comparison to Results of Flow Cytometry<br />

1. Collect a BM sample with a proportion of malignant cells of greater than 2% from a patient<br />

in whom ASO primers have been devised.<br />

2. Assess sample for CD38++, κ/γ-restricted cells by flow cytometry. This gives an approximate<br />

value for the proportion of malignant cells.<br />

3. Isolate DNA from this sample (see Subheading 3.1.).<br />

4. Quantitate the tumor load by qPCR as described in Subheading 3.1.

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