Uniform amplification of a mixture of deoxyribonucleic acids with varying GC content

Genome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 633-638

  Baskaran, Namadev ^a   Kandpal, Rajendra P ^a,c   Bhargava, Ajay K ^a,d   Glynn, Michael W ^b   Bale, Allen ^b   Weissman, Sherman M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029820375     PISSN: 10549803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.7.633     Document Type: Article

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