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Extensive recombination due to heteroduplexes generates large amounts of artificial gene fragments during PCR.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Liu Jia, Song Hongshuo, Liu Donglai, Zuo Tao, Lu Fengmin, Zhuang Hui, Gao Feng
Abstract excerpt
Artificial recombinants can be generated during PCR when more than two genetically distinct templates coexist in a single PCR reaction. These recombinant amplicons can lead to the false interpretation of genetic diversity and incorrect identification of biological phenotypes that do not exist in vivo. We investigated how recombination between 2 or 35 genetically distinct HIV-1 genomes was affected by different...
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