Patent ID: 8530161

Claim:
A method of selectively amplifying regions of the PKD1 gene, but not the corresponding region of a PKD1 homolog, wherein said PKD1 gene comprises SEQ ID NO:1, the method comprising amplifying a DNA sample which contains the PKD1 gene with a set of eight PKD1-specific primer pairs to obtain PKD1-specific amplification products of the PKD1 gene, wherein the amplification products do not contain PKD1 homolog sequence, and further wherein said set of eight primer pairs selectively hybridize to SEQ ID NO:1 and amplify portions of SEQ ID NO:1, the portions selected from the group consisting of: about nucleotides 2043 to 4290, about nucleotides 17907 to 22489, about nucleotides 22218 to 26363, about nucleotides 26246 to 30615, about nucleotides 30606 to 33957, about nucleotides 36819 to 37140, about nucleotides 37329 to 41258, and about nucleotides 41508 to 47320, and further wherein the set of eight primer pairs comprise SEQ ID NO: 3 and an additional primer; SEQ ID NO: 5 and an additional primer; SEQ ID NO: 8 and an additional primer; SEQ ID NO: 10 and an additional primer; SEQ ID NO: 11 and an additional primer; SEQ ID NO: 14 and an additional primer; SEQ ID NO: 16 and an additional primer; and SEQ ID NO: 17 and an additional primer or SEQ ID NO: 18 and an additional primer.