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When a likely disease-causative mutation was found in each of these patients, no further fragments were sequenced for that patient.
Details of the reagent costs per patient calculations are attached as Additional file A. Briefly, we assumed that likely disease-causative mutations would be found, on average, within approximately 43 fragments.
As we found no likely disease-causative mutations in our first pass DHPLC conditions, we sequenced all four patients exons 56-78 and the 7 fragments of the 3'-UTR (the first of which contains exon 79).
In total, likely disease-causative mutations were found in six of the eight male patients and confirmed in the carrier sister (patient 01s) of one of the six patients (patient 01).
In two patients, 05 and 06, we did not find likely disease-causative mutations despite sequencing all 86 fragments.