Locked nucleic acids in PCR primers increase sensitivity and performance

Genomics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 301-305

  Ballantyne, K N ^a,b   van Oorschot, R A H ^a   Mitchell, R J ^b  

^a Victoria Police Forensic Services Department   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Locked nucleic acids; Low copy number; Multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DNA; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39149132446     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2007.10.016     Document Type: Article

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