New whole genome amplification method reduces biases introduced by other methods

Friday, April 14, 2017 - 08:01 in Physics & Chemistry

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at Harvard University has developed a new whole-genome amplification method that outperforms other methods currently being used. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes their technique and how well it performed when used to measure single-nucleotide variations in a human cell after exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

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