Sequence polymorphism can produce serious artefacts in real-time PCR assays: hard lessons from Pacific oysters

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Since it was first described in the mid-1990s, quantitative real time PCR (Q-PCR) has been widely used in many fields of biomedical research and molecular diagnostics. This method is routinely used to validate whole transcriptome ana...

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Main Authors: Camara Mark D, Lang Robert P, Taris Nicolas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-05-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/234