A new approach to primer design for the control of PCR bias in methylation studies

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wojdacz, Tomasz K ^a,b   Hansen, Lise Lotte ^b   Dobrovic, Alexander ^a,c  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 69949106668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-54     Document Type: Article

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