Simple enzymatic means to neutralize DNA contamination in nucleic acid amplification
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Simple enzymatic means to neutralize DNA contamination in nucleic acid amplification.
Reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) is prone to false positives when contaminating DNA molecules are present at the start of a reaction. Contaminants that derive from earlier work using a given primer pair (carryover PCR products) are of particular concern when those primers are used routinely, as in clinical diagnostics or environmental monitoring. In addition, contamination by genomic DNA can ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioTechniques
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0736-6205,1940-9818
DOI: 10.2144/05391st02