A quantitative approach to detect and overcome PCR inhibition in ancient DNA extracts

BioTechniques

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 941-949

  King, Christine E ^a,b   Debruyne, Régis ^a   Kuch, Melanie ^a   Schwarz, Carsten ^a   Poinar, Hendrik N ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplification efficiency; Degraded DNA; Forensic DNA analysis; PCR inhibitors; PCR kinetics; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DNA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649188745     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000113244     Document Type: Article

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