Pyrosequencing of BRAF (codon 600), exon 3 of KRAS (codons 12 and 13), and PIK3CA (exon 9) was performed using the PyroMark Q96 ID QIAGEN software 2.5 system according to the manufacturer’s manual. For pyrosequencing, we used specific primers one of which was biotinylated to immobilize with streptavidin beads (GE healthcare) and to amplify each target region. The pyrosequencing reaction applied to Roche PCR 480 contained 20 ng of genomic DNA and results were analyzed by PyroMark Q24 Application Software 2.0 (v.2.0.6, Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). Finally, the results were double-checked by a High-Resolution Melting (HRM) analysis [21 (link)].
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