Chapter 8, Problem 2CT

Summary Introduction

To describe:

The method of analysis by a laboratory technician whether a patient is infected with $\text{HTLV-1}\text{(Human T-cell leukemia virus)}$ even though there are no signs of cancer.

Introduction:

Microarray is a technique of hybridization of $\text{cDNA}$ fragments obtained from normal and virus infected samples with the gene segments present embedded on glass slides. Genetic screening analyzes the mutations in the genome caused by infection and entry of virus particles inside the cells by sequencing the nucleotides.