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A novel blocker-PCR method for detection of rare mutant alleles in the presence of an excess amount of normal DNA.
Nucleic acids research - 25 May 1992
Seyama T, Ito T, Hayashi T, Mizuno T, Nakamura N, Akiyama M
Abstract excerpt
A novel polymerase chain reaction method was developed to preferentially amplify a segment of DNA containing a base substitution mutation. This technique uses a pair of dideoxynucleotide-labeled oligonucleotides (18 mers) of normal sequences as blockers located between the two primers. By virtue of a subtle difference in the melting temperature between the blocker-normal DNA and blocker-mutant DNA hybrids, the...
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