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Shedding light on PCR contamination
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  • Published: 04 January 1990

Shedding light on PCR contamination

  • GOBINDA SARKAR1 &
  • STEVES SOMMER1 

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic/Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, USA

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SARKAR, G., SOMMER, S. Shedding light on PCR contamination. Nature 343, 27 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/343027a0

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