An Unusual Melting Curve on a LightCycler Due to a New Mutation in Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR; E.C. 1.5.1.20) catalyzes the reduction of 5,10-methylenetetrahydofolate to 5-methytetrahydrofolate, and its activity is affected by a number of polymorphisms and mutations, the best known being MTHFR c.677C > T (OMIM 607093.003). The c.677C > T mutation is often analyzed by melting curve analysis after real-time polymerase chain reaction. We observed in one patient upon dual hybridization probe analysis in a Roche LightCycler 1.2 an unusual melting curve peak at 53.4 degrees C instead of one expected at either 51.6 degrees C or 60.4 degrees C. We sequenced the region of MTHFR interrogated by the dual hybridization probes, which revealed a c.685A > G base substitution that would result in an Ile225Val substitution. In conclusion, we identified the cause of an unusual melting curve in a commonly used genotyping technique for MTHFR c.677C > T as due to a novel mutation highlighting the ability of melting analysis to identify new sequence variants.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".