Objective To detect β-thalassemia by the approach of gene mutation-sensitive molecular switch. Methods Genomic DNA was extracted from normal blood. According to the sequences of known hot spot mutation region of CD41-42 and IVS2-654 inβ-globin gene, the mutant sequence primer was designed, and then primer extension reaction was performed with low-fidelity enzyme, and the PCR products was cloned into pMD19-T vector. Two kinds of clones of 13-thalassemia mutation gene (CD41-42 and IVS2-654) were obtained. Then these two mutation region were u...