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<strong>The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is an Autonomous Body, set up under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare primarily with the objective of periodically updating of the Indian Pharmacopoeia, the book of standards for the drugs; the National Formulary of India, the book of reference on the drugs; and other related tasks such as preparing, certification and distribution of Reference Substances; assist the National Pharmacovigilance Programme; testing of the new drugs and review of Technical dossier</strong><br />
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<u>Senior Scientific Officer</u><br />
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Category: 02 – UR 01 – OBC 01 – SC<br />
Pay Band & Grade Pay: Rs.15600-39100 Grade Pay Rs. 6600<br />
Age: Age limit is 40 years (age relaxation for SC/ST is five years and three years for OBC).<br />
Educational Qualification & Experience:<br /><em>Essential:</em> <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">Post Graduate degree</span> in Pharmaceutical Sciences / Bio-chemistry / Biotecnology / Chemistry / Pharmacology / Microbiology from a recognized University.<br /><em>Experience:</em> i) 7 years of experience in the area of Pharmaceuticals; ii) Research experience in the relevant field with support of paper(s) published.<br /><em>Desirable</em> – i) Ph.D. in any of the related fields; ii) Research experience in the relevant field with support of paper(s) published; iii) Good knowledge of computer application.<br />
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Category: 09 – UR 03 – OBC 02 – SC 01 – ST<br />
Pay Band & Grade Pay: Rs. 9300 – 34800 Grade Pay Rs. 4200<br />
Age: Age limit is 30 years (age relaxation for SC/ST is five years and three years for OBC).<br />
Educational Qualification & Experience:<br /><em>Essential:</em> Post Graduate degree in Pharmacy/ Chemistry/ Pharmaceutical Chemistry/ Bio-Chemistry from a recognized University.<br /><em>Experience:</em> One year experience in 1) chemical/physiochemical testing and analysis of drugs or 2) review of Technical Dossier of Drugs or 3) pharmacovigilance.<br /><em>Desirable: </em>Good knowledge of computer applications.<br />
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Trainee Scientific Officer Orbit Biotech Pvt. Ltd. - Mohali, Punjab -Only Biotech candidates..CLICK HERE ,.."D2"

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<span class="summary">Working on book publication project<br />Working on R&D projects<br />Training of industrial interns<br />Working on online projects<br />
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Salary: INR 1,25,000 - 2,00,000 P.A<br />
Industry: Pharma / Biotech / Clinical Research<br />Focus area: Medical, Healthcare, R&D, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology<br />Role Category: R&D<br />Role: Microbiologist<br />
Desired Candidate Profile<br />Education: UG - B.Sc - Microbiology<br />PG - M.Sc - Any Specialization, Microbiology, Other<br />Doctorate - Doctorate Not Required<br />
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good communication skills are must.<br />
Contact Details<br />Recruiter Name: Arvind Chandel<br />Contact Company: Orbit Biotech Pvt Ltd<br />Email Address:<br />Telephone: 8591921105<br />
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What is PCR ? Polymerase chain reaction

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"PCR" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCR_%28disambiguation%29" title="PCR (disambiguation)">PCR (disambiguation)</a>.</div>
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<td class="mbox-text"><span class="mbox-text-span">It has been suggested that <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_PCR" title="Applications of PCR">Applications of PCR</a></i> be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging" title="Wikipedia:Merging">merged</a> into this article. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Polymerase_chain_reaction#Proposed_merge_with_Applications_of_PCR" title="Talk:Polymerase chain reaction">Discuss</a>) <small><i>Proposed since June 2013.</i></small></span></td>
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The <b>polymerase chain reaction</b> (<b>PCR</b>) is a biochemical technology in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_biology" title="Molecular biology">molecular biology</a> used to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_replication" title="DNA replication">amplify</a> a single or a few copies of a piece of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA" title="DNA">DNA</a> across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequence" title="DNA sequence">DNA sequence</a>.<br />

Developed in 1983 by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis" title="Kary Mullis">Kary Mullis</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bartlett_.26_Stirling_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Bartlett_.26_Stirling-1">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pat_mar_2-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-pat_mar-2">[2]</a></sup>
 PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical 
and biological research labs for a variety of applications.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Saiki1_3-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Saiki1-3">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Saiki2_4-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Saiki2-4">[4]</a></sup> These include <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_cloning" title="DNA cloning">DNA cloning</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing" title="DNA sequencing">sequencing</a>, DNA-based <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogeny" title="Phylogeny">phylogeny</a>, or functional analysis of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene" title="Gene">genes</a>; the diagnosis of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_disease" title="Hereditary disease">hereditary diseases</a>; the identification of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fingerprint" title="Genetic fingerprint">genetic fingerprints</a> (used in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_science" title="Forensic science">forensic sciences</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_testing" title="Parental testing">paternity testing</a>); and the detection and diagnosis of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease" title="Infectious disease">infectious diseases</a>. In 1993, Mullis was awarded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry" title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Smith_%28chemist%29" title="Michael Smith (chemist)">Michael Smith</a> for his work on PCR.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kary_Mullis_Nobel_Lecture_5-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Kary_Mullis_Nobel_Lecture-5">[5]</a></sup><br />

The method relies on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_cycler" title="Thermal cycler">thermal cycling</a>, consisting of cycles of repeated heating and cooling of the reaction for <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_melting" title="DNA melting">DNA melting</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme" title="Enzyme">enzymatic</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_replication" title="DNA replication">replication</a> of the DNA. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28molecular_biology%29" title="Primer (molecular biology)">Primers</a> (short DNA fragments) containing sequences complementary to the target region along with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_polymerase" title="DNA polymerase">DNA polymerase</a>
 (after which the method is named) are key components to enable 
selective and repeated amplification. As PCR progresses, the DNA 
generated is itself used as a template for replication, setting in 
motion a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_reaction" title="Chain reaction">chain reaction</a> in which the DNA template is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth" title="Exponential growth">exponentially</a> amplified. PCR can be extensively modified to perform a wide array of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering">genetic manipulations</a>.<br />

Almost all PCR applications employ a heat-stable DNA polymerase, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq_polymerase" title="Taq polymerase">Taq polymerase</a> (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermus_aquaticus" title="Thermus aquaticus">Thermus aquaticus</a></i>). This DNA polymerase <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme" title="Enzyme">enzymatically</a> assembles a new DNA strand from DNA building-blocks, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide" title="Nucleotide">nucleotides</a>, by using single-stranded DNA as a template and DNA <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligonucleotide" title="Oligonucleotide">oligonucleotides</a> (also called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28molecular_biology%29" title="Primer (molecular biology)">DNA primers</a>), which are required for initiation of DNA synthesis. The vast majority of PCR methods use <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocycler" title="Thermocycler">thermal cycling</a>, i.e., alternately heating and cooling the PCR sample through a defined series of temperature steps.<br />

In the first step, the two strands of the DNA double helix are physically separated at a high temperature in a process called <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_melting" title="DNA melting">DNA melting</a>. In the second step, the temperature is lowered and the two DNA strands become <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA#Polymerases" title="DNA">templates</a> for DNA polymerase to selectively amplify the target DNA. The selectivity of PCR results from the use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28molecular_biology%29" title="Primer (molecular biology)">primers</a> that are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_DNA" title="Complementary DNA">complementary</a> to the DNA region targeted for amplification under specific thermal cycling conditions.<br />

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#PCR_principles_and_procedure"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">PCR principles and procedure</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Procedure"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Procedure</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#PCR_stages"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">PCR stages</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#PCR_optimization"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">PCR optimization</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Application_of_PCR"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Application of PCR</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Selective_DNA_isolation"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Selective DNA isolation</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Amplification_and_quantification_of_DNA"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Amplification and quantification of DNA</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#PCR_in_diagnosis_of_diseases"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">PCR in diagnosis of diseases</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Variations_on_the_basic_PCR_technique"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Variations on the basic PCR technique</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#History"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Patent_disputes"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Patent disputes</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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<b>Figure 1a</b>: A thermal cycler for PCR</div>
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<b>Figure 1b</b>: An older model three-temperature thermal cycler for PCR</div>
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PCR is used to amplify a specific region of a DNA strand (the DNA 
target). Most PCR methods typically amplify DNA fragments of between 0.1
 and 10 <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo_base_pair" title="Kilo base pair">kilo base pairs</a> (kb), although some techniques allow for amplification of fragments up to 40 kb in size.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup>
 The amount of amplified product is determined by the available 
substrates in the reaction, which become limiting as the reaction 
progresses.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup><br />

A basic PCR set up requires several components and reagents.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-molecular_cloning_8-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-molecular_cloning-8">[8]</a></sup> These components include:<br />

<ul>
<li><i>DNA template</i> that contains the DNA region (target) to be amplified.</li>
<li>Two <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28molecular_biology%29" title="Primer (molecular biology)">primers</a></i> that are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarity_%28molecular_biology%29" title="Complementarity (molecular biology)">complementary</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directionality_%28molecular_biology%29" title="Directionality (molecular biology)">3'</a> (three prime) ends of each of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA#Sense_and_antisense" title="DNA">sense and anti-sense</a> strand of the DNA target.</li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq_polymerase" title="Taq polymerase">Taq polymerase</a></i> or another <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_polymerase" title="DNA polymerase">DNA polymerase</a> with a temperature optimum at around 70 °C.</li>
<li><i>Deoxynucleoside triphosphates</i> (dNTPs, sometimes called "deoxynucleotide triphosphates"; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide" title="Nucleotide">nucleotides</a> containing triphosphate groups), the building-blocks from which the DNA polymerase synthesizes a new DNA strand.</li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_solution" title="Buffer solution">Buffer solution</a></i>, providing a suitable chemical environment for optimum activity and stability of the DNA polymerase.</li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivalent" title="Bivalent">Bivalent</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cations" title="Cations">cations</a></i>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium" title="Magnesium">magnesium</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese" title="Manganese">manganese</a> ions; generally Mg<sup>2+</sup> is used, but Mn<sup>2+</sup> can be utilized for PCR-mediated DNA <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCR_mutagenesis" title="PCR mutagenesis">mutagenesis</a>, as higher Mn<sup>2+</sup> concentration increases the error rate during DNA synthesis<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup></li>
<li><i>Monovalent cation</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium" title="Potassium">potassium</a> ions.</li>
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The PCR is commonly carried out in a reaction volume of 10–200 μl in small reaction tubes (0.2–0.5 ml volumes) in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_cycler" title="Thermal cycler">thermal cycler</a>.
 The thermal cycler heats and cools the reaction tubes to achieve the 
temperatures required at each step of the reaction (see below). Many 
modern thermal cyclers make use of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling" title="Thermoelectric cooling">Peltier effect</a>,
 which permits both heating and cooling of the block holding the PCR 
tubes simply by reversing the electric current. Thin-walled reaction 
tubes permit favorable thermal conductivity to allow for rapid thermal 
equilibration. Most thermal cyclers have heated lids to prevent 
condensation at the top of the reaction tube. Older thermocyclers 
lacking a heated lid require a layer of oil on top of the reaction 
mixture or a ball of wax inside the tube.<br />

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<span class="mw-headline" id="Procedure">Procedure</span></h3>
Typically, PCR consists of a series of 20-40 repeated temperature 
changes, called cycles, with each cycle commonly consisting of 2-3 
discrete temperature steps, usually three (Figure below). The cycling is
 often preceded by a single temperature step (called <i>hold</i>) at a 
high temperature (>90 °C), and followed by one hold at the end for 
final product extension or brief storage. The temperatures used and the 
length of time they are applied in each cycle depend on a variety of 
parameters. These include the enzyme used for DNA synthesis, the 
concentration of divalent ions and dNTPs in the reaction, and the 
melting temperature (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_melting" title="DNA melting">Tm</a>) of the primers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup><br />

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<li><i>Initialization step</i>: This step consists of heating the 
reaction to a temperature of 94–96 °C (or 98 °C if extremely 
thermostable polymerases are used), which is held for 1–9 minutes. It is
 only required for DNA polymerases that require heat activation by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Variations_on_the_basic_PCR_technique" title="Polymerase chain reaction">hot-start PCR</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-antibody_hot_start_11-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-antibody_hot_start-11">[11]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturation_%28biochemistry%29#Nucleic_acid_denaturation" title="Denaturation (biochemistry)">Denaturation step</a></i>: This step is the first regular cycling event and consists of heating the reaction to 94–98 °C for 20–30 seconds. It causes <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_melting" title="DNA melting">DNA melting</a> of the DNA template by disrupting the hydrogen bonds between complementary bases, yielding single-stranded DNA molecules.</li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_%28biology%29" title="Annealing (biology)">Annealing step</a></i>:
 The reaction temperature is lowered to 50–65 °C for 20–40 seconds 
allowing annealing of the primers to the single-stranded DNA template. 
Typically the annealing temperature is about 3–5 °C below the Tm of the 
primers used. Stable DNA–DNA hydrogen bonds are only formed when the 
primer sequence very closely matches the template sequence. The 
polymerase binds to the primer-template hybrid and begins DNA formation.</li>
<li><i>Extension/elongation step</i>: The temperature at this step depends on the DNA polymerase used; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq_polymerase" title="Taq polymerase">Taq polymerase</a> has its optimum <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme" title="Enzyme">activity</a> temperature at 75–80 °C,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Chien_et_al._12-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Chien_et_al.-12">[12]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lawyer_et_al._13-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Lawyer_et_al.-13">[13]</a></sup>
 and commonly a temperature of 72 °C is used with this enzyme. At this 
step the DNA polymerase synthesizes a new DNA strand complementary to 
the DNA template strand by adding dNTPs that are complementary to the 
template in 5' to 3' direction, condensing the 5'-<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate_group" title="Phosphate group">phosphate group</a> of the dNTPs with the 3'-<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_group" title="Hydroxyl group">hydroxyl group</a>
 at the end of the nascent (extending) DNA strand. The extension time 
depends both on the DNA polymerase used and on the length of the DNA 
fragment to be amplified. As a rule-of-thumb, at its optimum 
temperature, the DNA polymerase will polymerize a thousand bases per 
minute. Under optimum conditions, i.e., if there are no limitations due 
to limiting substrates or reagents, at each extension step, the amount 
of DNA target is doubled, leading to exponential (geometric) 
amplification of the specific DNA fragment.</li>
<li><i>Final elongation</i>: This single step is occasionally performed 
at a temperature of 70–74 °C for 5–15 minutes after the last PCR cycle 
to ensure that any remaining single-stranded DNA is fully extended.</li>
<li><i>Final hold</i>: This step at 4–15 °C for an indefinite time may be employed for short-term storage of the reaction.</li>
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<b>Figure 3</b>: Ethidium bromide-stained PCR products after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel_electrophoresis" title="Gel electrophoresis">gel electrophoresis</a>.
 Two sets of primers were used to amplify a target sequence from three 
different tissue samples. No amplification is present in sample #1; DNA 
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To check whether the PCR generated the anticipated DNA fragment (also sometimes referred to as the amplimer or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplicon" title="Amplicon">amplicon</a>), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agarose_gel_electrophoresis" title="Agarose gel electrophoresis">agarose gel electrophoresis</a> is employed for size separation of the PCR products. The size(s) of PCR products is determined by comparison with a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_ladder" title="DNA ladder">DNA ladder</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="PCR_stages">PCR stages</span></h2>
The PCR process can be divided into three stages:<br />

<i>Exponential amplification</i>: At every cycle, the amount of 
product is doubled (assuming 100% reaction efficiency). The reaction is 
very sensitive: only minute quantities of DNA need to be present.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup><br />

<i>Leveling off stage</i>: The reaction slows as the DNA polymerase 
loses activity and as consumption of reagents such as dNTPs and primers 
causes them to become limiting.<br />

<i>Plateau</i>: No more product accumulates due to exhaustion of reagents and enzyme.<br />

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<span class="mw-headline" id="PCR_optimization">PCR optimization</span></h3>
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Main article: <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCR_optimization" title="PCR optimization">PCR optimization</a></div>
In practice, PCR can fail for various reasons, in part due to its 
sensitivity to contamination causing amplification of spurious DNA 
products. Because of this, a number of techniques and procedures have 
been developed for optimizing PCR conditions.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup>
 Contamination with extraneous DNA is addressed with lab protocols and 
procedures that separate pre-PCR mixtures from potential DNA 
contaminants.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-molecular_cloning_8-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-molecular_cloning-8">[8]</a></sup>
 This usually involves spatial separation of PCR-setup areas from areas 
for analysis or purification of PCR products, use of disposable 
plasticware, and thoroughly cleaning the work surface between reaction 
setups. Primer-design techniques are important in improving PCR product 
yield and in avoiding the formation of spurious products, and the usage 
of alternate buffer components or polymerase enzymes can help with 
amplification of long or otherwise problematic regions of DNA. Addition 
of reagents, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formamide" title="Formamide">formamide</a>, in buffer systems may increase the specificity and yield of PCR.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> Computer simulations of theoretical PCR results (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_silico_PCR" title="In silico PCR">Electronic PCR</a>) may be performed to assist in primer design.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ePCR_18-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-ePCR-18">[18]</a></sup><br />

<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Application_of_PCR">Application of PCR</span></h2>
<div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">
Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_PCR" title="Applications of PCR">Applications of PCR</a></div>
<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Selective_DNA_isolation">Selective DNA isolation</span></h3>
PCR allows isolation of DNA fragments from genomic DNA by selective 
amplification of a specific region of DNA. This use of PCR augments many
 methods, such as generating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybridization_probe" title="Hybridization probe">hybridization probes</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_blot" title="Southern blot">Southern</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_blot" title="Northern blot">northern</a> hybridization and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_cloning" title="DNA cloning">DNA cloning</a>,
 which require larger amounts of DNA, representing a specific DNA 
region. PCR supplies these techniques with high amounts of pure DNA, 
enabling analysis of DNA samples even from very small amounts of 
starting material.<br />

Other applications of PCR include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing" title="DNA sequencing">DNA sequencing</a>
 to determine unknown PCR-amplified sequences in which one of the 
amplification primers may be used in Sanger sequencing, isolation of a 
DNA sequence to expedite <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA" title="Recombinant DNA">recombinant DNA</a> technologies involving the insertion of a DNA sequence into a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid" title="Plasmid">plasmid</a> or the genetic material of another organism. Bacterial colonies (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli" title="Escherichia coli">E. coli</a>) can be rapidly screened by PCR for correct DNA <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid" title="Plasmid">vector</a> constructs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hybrid_19-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Hybrid-19">[19]</a></sup> PCR may also be used for <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fingerprinting" title="Genetic fingerprinting">genetic fingerprinting</a>; a forensic technique used to identify a person or organism by comparing experimental DNAs through different PCR-based methods.<br />

Some PCR 'fingerprints' methods have high discriminative power and 
can be used to identify genetic relationships between individuals, such 
as parent-child or between siblings, and are used in paternity testing 
(Fig. 4). This technique may also be used to determine evolutionary 
relationships among organisms.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><br />

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<b>Figure 4</b>: Electrophoresis of PCR-amplified DNA fragments. (1) 
Father. (2) Child. (3) Mother. The child has inherited some, but not all
 of the fingerprint of each of its parents, giving it a new, unique 
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<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Amplification_and_quantification_of_DNA">Amplification and quantification of DNA</span></h3>
Because PCR amplifies the regions of DNA that it targets, PCR can be 
used to analyze extremely small amounts of sample. This is often 
critical for <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_analysis" title="Forensic analysis">forensic analysis</a>, when only a trace amount of DNA is available as evidence. PCR may also be used in the analysis of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA" title="Ancient DNA">ADNA</a>
 that is tens of thousands of years old. These PCR-based techniques have
 been successfully used on animals, such as a forty-thousand-year-old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth" title="Mammoth">mammoth</a>, and also on human DNA, in applications ranging from the analysis of Egyptian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy" title="Mummy">mummies</a> to the identification of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar" title="Tsar">tsar</a> and the body of English king <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III" title="Richard III">Richard III</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup><br />

Quantitative PCR methods allow the estimation of the amount of a 
given sequence present in a sample—a technique often applied to 
quantitatively determine levels of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression" title="Gene expression">gene expression</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_PCR" title="Quantitative PCR">Quantitative PCR</a>
 is an established tool for DNA quantification that measures the 
accumulation of DNA product after each round of PCR amplification.<br />

<div class="hatnote boilerplate seealso">
See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_DNA_in_forensic_entomology" title="Use of DNA in forensic entomology">Use of DNA in forensic entomology</a></div>
<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id="PCR_in_diagnosis_of_diseases">PCR in diagnosis of diseases</span></h3>
PCR permits early diagnosis of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant" title="Malignant">malignant</a> diseases such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukemia" title="Leukemia">leukemia</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphoma" title="Lymphoma">lymphomas</a>,
 which is currently the highest-developed in cancer research and is 
already being used routinely. PCR assays can be performed directly on 
genomic DNA samples to detect translocation-specific malignant cells at a
 sensitivity that is at least 10,000 fold higher than that of other 
methods.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><br />

PCR allows for rapid and highly specific diagnosis of infectious diseases, including those caused by bacteria or viruses.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cai2014_21-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Cai2014-21">[21]</a></sup> PCR also permits identification of non-cultivatable or slow-growing microorganisms such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium" title="Mycobacterium">mycobacteria</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_organism" title="Anaerobic organism">anaerobic bacteria</a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus" title="Virus">viruses</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_culture" title="Tissue culture">tissue culture</a> assays and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_model" title="Animal model">animal models</a>.
 The basis for PCR diagnostic applications in microbiology is the 
detection of infectious agents and the discrimination of non-pathogenic 
from pathogenic strains by virtue of specific genes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cai2014_21-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Cai2014-21">[21]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup><br />

Viral DNA can likewise be detected by PCR. The primers used need to 
be specific to the targeted sequences in the DNA of a virus, and the PCR
 can be used for diagnostic analyses or DNA sequencing of the viral 
genome. The high sensitivity of PCR permits virus detection soon after 
infection and even before the onset of disease.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Cai2014_21-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Cai2014-21">[21]</a></sup> Such early detection may give physicians a significant lead time in treatment. The amount of virus ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_load" title="Viral load">viral load</a>") in a patient can also be quantified by PCR-based DNA quantitation techniques (see below).<br />

<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Variations_on_the_basic_PCR_technique">Variations on the basic PCR technique</span></h2>
<div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">
Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_PCR" title="Variants of PCR">Variants of PCR</a></div>
<ul>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allele-specific_PCR&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Allele-specific PCR (page does not exist)">Allele-specific PCR</a></i>: a diagnostic or cloning technique based on single-nucleotide variations (SNVs not to be confused with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism" title="Single-nucleotide polymorphism">SNPs</a>) (single-base differences in a patient). It requires prior knowledge of a DNA sequence, including differences between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allele" title="Allele">alleles</a>,
 and uses primers whose 3' ends encompass the SNV (base pair buffer 
around SNV usually incorporated). PCR amplification under stringent 
conditions is much less efficient in the presence of a mismatch between 
template and primer, so successful amplification with an SNP-specific 
primer signals presence of the specific SNP in a sequence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup> See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNP_genotyping" title="SNP genotyping">SNP genotyping</a> for more information.</li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_cycling_assembly" title="Polymerase cycling assembly">Assembly PCR</a></i> or <i>Polymerase Cycling Assembly (PCA)</i>:
 artificial synthesis of long DNA sequences by performing PCR on a pool 
of long oligonucleotides with short overlapping segments. The 
oligonucleotides alternate between sense and antisense directions, and 
the overlapping segments determine the order of the PCR fragments, 
thereby selectively producing the final long DNA product.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Stemmer_et_al._24-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Stemmer_et_al.-24">[24]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asymmetric_PCR&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Asymmetric PCR (page does not exist)">Asymmetric PCR</a></i>: preferentially amplifies one DNA strand in a double-stranded DNA template. It is used in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequencing" title="Sequencing">sequencing</a>
 and hybridization probing where amplification of only one of the two 
complementary strands is required. PCR is carried out as usual, but with
 a great excess of the primer for the strand targeted for amplification.
 Because of the slow (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic" title="Arithmetic">arithmetic</a>) amplification later in the reaction after the limiting primer has been used up, extra cycles of PCR are required.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Innis_et_al._25-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Innis_et_al.-25">[25]</a></sup> A recent modification on this process, known as <i>L</i>inear-<i>A</i>fter-<i>T</i>he-<i>E</i>xponential-PCR (LATE-PCR), uses a limiting primer with a higher melting temperature (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_melting" title="DNA melting">Tm</a>) than the excess primer to maintain reaction efficiency as the limiting primer concentration decreases mid-reaction.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Pierce_and_Wangh_26-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Pierce_and_Wangh-26">[26]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dial-out_PCR&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Dial-out PCR (page does not exist)">Dial-out PCR</a></i>:
 a highly parallel method for retrieving accurate DNA molecules for gene
 synthesis. A complex library of DNA molecules is modified with unique 
flanking tags before massively parallel sequencing. Tag-directed primers
 then enable the retrieval of molecules with desired sequences by PCR.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Schwartz_et_al._27-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Schwartz_et_al.-27">[27]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_PCR" title="Digital PCR">Digital PCR</a> (dPCR)</i>:
 used to measure the quantity of a target DNA sequence in a DNA sample. 
The DNA sample is highly diluted so that after running many PCRs in 
parallel, some of them will not receive a single molecule of the target 
DNA. The target DNA concentration is calculated using the proportion of 
negative outcomes. Hence the name 'digital PCR'.</li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicase-dependent_amplification" title="Helicase-dependent amplification">Helicase-dependent amplification</a></i>:
 similar to traditional PCR, but uses a constant temperature rather than
 cycling through denaturation and annealing/extension cycles. <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_helicase" title="DNA helicase">DNA helicase</a>, an enzyme that unwinds DNA, is used in place of thermal denaturation.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_start_PCR" title="Hot start PCR">Hot start PCR</a></i>:
 a technique that reduces non-specific amplification during the initial 
set up stages of the PCR. It may be performed manually by heating the 
reaction components to the denaturation temperature (e.g., 95 °C) before
 adding the polymerase.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-general_hot_start_29-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-general_hot_start-29">[29]</a></sup>
 Specialized enzyme systems have been developed that inhibit the 
polymerase's activity at ambient temperature, either by the binding of 
an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody" title="Antibody">antibody</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-antibody_hot_start_11-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-antibody_hot_start-11">[11]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-antibody_hot_start_2_30-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-antibody_hot_start_2-30">[30]</a></sup>
 or by the presence of covalently bound inhibitors that dissociate only 
after a high-temperature activation step. Hot-start/cold-finish PCR is 
achieved with new hybrid polymerases that are inactive at ambient 
temperature and are instantly activated at elongation temperature.</li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_silico_PCR" title="In silico PCR">In silico PCR</a></i>
 (digital PCR, virtual PCR, electronic PCR, e-PCR) refers to 
computational tools used to calculate theoretical polymerase chain 
reaction results using a given set of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28molecular_biology%29" title="Primer (molecular biology)">primers</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybridization_probe" title="Hybridization probe">probes</a>) to amplify <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA" title="DNA">DNA</a> sequences from a sequenced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome" title="Genome">genome</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptome" title="Transcriptome">transcriptome</a>. In silico PCR was proposed as an educational tool for molecular biology.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intersequence-specific_PCR&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Intersequence-specific PCR (page does not exist)">Intersequence-specific PCR</a></i>
 (ISSR): a PCR method for DNA fingerprinting that amplifies regions 
between simple sequence repeats to produce a unique fingerprint of 
amplified fragment lengths.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_polymerase_chain_reaction" title="Inverse polymerase chain reaction">Inverse PCR</a></i>: is commonly used to identify the flanking sequences around <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic" title="Genomic">genomic</a> inserts. It involves a series of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_digest" title="Restriction digest">DNA digestions</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_ligation" title="Self ligation">self ligation</a>, resulting in known sequences at either end of the unknown sequence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ochman_et_al._33-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Ochman_et_al.-33">[33]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ligation-mediated_PCR&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Ligation-mediated PCR (page does not exist)">Ligation-mediated PCR</a></i>: uses small DNA linkers ligated to the DNA of interest and multiple primers annealing to the DNA linkers; it has been used for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing" title="DNA sequencing">DNA sequencing</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_walking" title="Genome walking">genome walking</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_footprinting" title="DNA footprinting">DNA footprinting</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mueller_and_Wold_34-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Mueller_and_Wold-34">[34]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylation-specific_PCR" title="Methylation-specific PCR">Methylation-specific PCR</a></i> (MSP): developed by Stephen Baylin and Jim Herman at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup>
 and is used to detect methylation of CpG islands in genomic DNA. DNA is
 first treated with sodium bisulfite, which converts unmethylated 
cytosine bases to uracil, which is recognized by PCR primers as thymine.
 Two PCRs are then carried out on the modified DNA, using primer sets 
identical except at any CpG islands within the primer sequences. At 
these points, one primer set recognizes DNA with cytosines to amplify 
methylated DNA, and one set recognizes DNA with uracil or thymine to 
amplify unmethylated DNA. MSP using qPCR can also be performed to obtain
 quantitative rather than qualitative information about methylation.</li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miniprimer_PCR&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Miniprimer PCR (page does not exist)">Miniprimer PCR</a></i>:
 uses a thermostable polymerase (S-Tbr) that can extend from short 
primers ("smalligos") as short as 9 or 10 nucleotides. This method 
permits PCR targeting to smaller primer binding regions, and is used to 
amplify conserved DNA sequences, such as the 16S (or eukaryotic 18S) 
rRNA gene.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Isenbarger_.27.27et_al..27.27._36-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Isenbarger_.27.27et_al..27.27.-36">[36]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplex_Ligation-dependent_Probe_Amplification" title="Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification">Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification</a></i> (<i>MLPA</i>):
 permits multiple targets to be amplified with only a single primer 
pair, thus avoiding the resolution limitations of multiplex PCR (see 
below).</li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplex-PCR" title="Multiplex-PCR">Multiplex-PCR</a></i>: consists of multiple primer sets within a single PCR mixture to produce <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplicon" title="Amplicon">amplicons</a>
 of varying sizes that are specific to different DNA sequences. By 
targeting multiple genes at once, additional information may be gained 
from a single test-run that otherwise would require several times the 
reagents and more time to perform. Annealing temperatures for each of 
the primer sets must be optimized to work correctly within a single 
reaction, and amplicon sizes. That is, their base pair length should be 
different enough to form distinct bands when visualized by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel_electrophoresis" title="Gel electrophoresis">gel electrophoresis</a>.</li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nanoparticle-Assisted_PCR_%28nanoPCR%29&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Nanoparticle-Assisted PCR (nanoPCR) (page does not exist)">Nanoparticle-Assisted PCR (nanoPCR)</a></i>:
 In recent years, it has been reported that some nanoparticles (NPs) can
 enhance the efficiency of PCR (thus being called nanoPCR), and some 
even perform better than the original PCR enhancers. It was also found 
that quantum dots (QDs) can improve PCR specificity and efficiency. 
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and multi-walled carbon 
nanotubes (MWCNTs) are efficient in enhancing the amplification of long 
PCR. Carbon nanopowder (CNP) was reported be able to improve the 
efficiency of repeated PCR and long PCR. ZnO, TiO<small>2</small>, and 
Ag NPs were also found to increase PCR yield. Importantly, already known
 data has indicated that non-metallic NPs retained acceptable 
amplification fidelity. Given that many NPs are capable of enhancing PCR
 efficiency, it is clear that there is likely to be great potential for 
nanoPCR technology improvements and product development.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_PCR" title="Nested PCR">Nested PCR</a></i>:
 increases the specificity of DNA amplification, by reducing background 
due to non-specific amplification of DNA. Two sets of primers are used 
in two successive PCRs. In the first reaction, one pair of primers is 
used to generate DNA products, which besides the intended target, may 
still consist of non-specifically amplified DNA fragments. The 
product(s) are then used in a second PCR with a set of primers whose 
binding sites are completely or partially different from and located 3' 
of each of the primers used in the first reaction. Nested PCR is often 
more successful in specifically amplifying long DNA fragments than 
conventional PCR, but it requires more detailed knowledge of the target 
sequences.</li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap-extension_PCR" title="Overlap-extension PCR">Overlap-extension PCR</a></i> or <i>Splicing by overlap extension (SOEing)</i> : a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering">genetic engineering</a>
 technique that is used to splice together two or more DNA fragments 
that contain complementary sequences. It is used to join DNA pieces 
containing genes, regulatory sequences, or mutations; the technique 
enables creation of specific and long DNA constructs. It can also 
introduce deletions, insertions or point mutations into a DNA sequence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PAN-AC&action=edit&redlink=1" title="PAN-AC (page does not exist)">PAN-AC</a></i>: uses isothermal conditions for amplification, and may be used in living cells.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_PCR" title="Quantitative PCR">quantitative PCR</a></i>
 (qPCR): used to measure the quantity of a target sequence (commonly in 
real-time). It quantitatively measures starting amounts of DNA, cDNA, or
 RNA. <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_PCR" title="Quantitative PCR">quantitative PCR</a> is commonly used to determine whether a DNA sequence is present in a sample and the number of its copies in the sample. <i>Quantitative PCR</i> has a very high degree of precision. Quantitative PCR methods use fluorescent dyes, such as Sybr Green, EvaGreen or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorophore" title="Fluorophore">fluorophore</a>-containing DNA probes, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaqMan" title="TaqMan">TaqMan</a>, to measure the amount of amplified product in real time. It is also sometimes abbreviated to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_PCR" title="Quantitative PCR">RT-PCR</a> (<i>real-time</i> PCR) but this abbreviation should be used only for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcription_polymerase_chain_reaction" title="Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction">reverse transcription PCR</a>. qPCR is the appropriate contractions for <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_PCR" title="Quantitative PCR">quantitative PCR</a> (real-time PCR).</li>
<li><i>Reverse Transcription PCR (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-PCR" title="RT-PCR">RT-PCR</a>)</i>: for amplifying DNA from RNA. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcriptase" title="Reverse transcriptase">Reverse transcriptase</a> reverse transcribes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA" title="RNA">RNA</a> into <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDNA" title="CDNA">cDNA</a>, which is then amplified by PCR. RT-PCR is widely used in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_profiling" title="Expression profiling">expression profiling</a>,
 to determine the expression of a gene or to identify the sequence of an
 RNA transcript, including transcription start and termination sites. If
 the genomic DNA sequence of a gene is known, RT-PCR can be used to map 
the location of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exons" title="Exons">exons</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introns" title="Introns">introns</a> in the gene. The 5' end of a gene (corresponding to the transcription start site) is typically identified by <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RACE_%28biology%29" title="RACE (biology)">RACE-PCR</a> (<i>Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends</i>).</li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solid_Phase_PCR&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Solid Phase PCR (page does not exist)">Solid Phase PCR</a></i>: encompasses multiple meanings, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polony_%28biology%29" title="Polony (biology)">Polony Amplification</a> (where PCR colonies are derived in a gel matrix, for example), Bridge PCR<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-43">[43]</a></sup>
 (primers are covalently linked to a solid-support surface), 
conventional Solid Phase PCR (where Asymmetric PCR is applied in the 
presence of solid support bearing primer with sequence matching one of 
the aqueous primers) and Enhanced Solid Phase PCR<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-44">[44]</a></sup>
 (where conventional Solid Phase PCR can be improved by employing high 
Tm and nested solid support primer with optional application of a 
thermal 'step' to favour solid support priming).</li>
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<li><i>Suicide PCR</i>: typically used in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleogenetics" title="Paleogenetics">paleogenetics</a>
 or other studies where avoiding false positives and ensuring the 
specificity of the amplified fragment is the highest priority. It was 
originally described in a study to verify the presence of the microbe <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis" title="Yersinia pestis">Yersinia pestis</a> in dental samples obtained from 14th Century graves of people supposedly killed by plague during the medieval <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a> epidemic.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-45">[45]</a></sup>
 The method prescribes the use of any primer combination only once in a 
PCR (hence the term "suicide"), which should never have been used in any
 positive control PCR reaction, and the primers should always target a 
genomic region never amplified before in the lab using this or any other
 set of primers. This ensures that no contaminating DNA from previous 
PCR reactions is present in the lab, which could otherwise generate 
false positives.</li>
</ul>
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<li><i>Thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR (<a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TAIL-PCR&action=edit&redlink=1" title="TAIL-PCR (page does not exist)">TAIL-PCR</a>)</i>:
 for isolation of an unknown sequence flanking a known sequence. Within 
the known sequence, TAIL-PCR uses a nested pair of primers with 
differing annealing temperatures; a degenerate primer is used to amplify
 in the other direction from the unknown sequence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-46"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-46">[46]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchdown_PCR" title="Touchdown PCR">Touchdown PCR</a></i> (<i>Step-down PCR</i>):
 a variant of PCR that aims to reduce nonspecific background by 
gradually lowering the annealing temperature as PCR cycling progresses. 
The annealing temperature at the initial cycles is usually a few degrees
 (3-5 °C) above the T<sub>m</sub> of the primers used, while at the later cycles, it is a few degrees (3-5 °C) below the primer T<sub>m</sub>.
 The higher temperatures give greater specificity for primer binding, 
and the lower temperatures permit more efficient amplification from the 
specific products formed during the initial cycles.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-47">[47]</a></sup></li>
<li><i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Fast_Walking&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Universal Fast Walking (page does not exist)">Universal Fast Walking</a></i>:
 for genome walking and genetic fingerprinting using a more specific 
'two-sided' PCR than conventional 'one-sided' approaches (using only one
 gene-specific primer and one general primer — which can lead to 
artefactual 'noise')<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Myrick_and_Gelbart_48-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Myrick_and_Gelbart-48">[48]</a></sup>
 by virtue of a mechanism involving lariat structure formation. 
Streamlined derivatives of UFW are LaNe RAGE (lariat-dependent nested 
PCR for rapid amplification of genomic DNA ends),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-lane_rage_49-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-lane_rage-49">[49]</a></sup> 5'RACE LaNe<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Parkb_50-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Parkb-50">[50]</a></sup> and 3'RACE LaNe.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Park_51-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Park-51">[51]</a></sup></li>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2>
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Diagrammatic representation of an example primer pair. The use of 
primers in an in vitro assay to allow DNA synthesis was a major 
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A 1971 paper in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Molecular_Biology" title="Journal of Molecular Biology">Journal of Molecular Biology</a> by Kleppe and co-workers first described a method using an enzymatic assay to replicate a short DNA template with primers <i>in vitro</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-52">[52]</a></sup>
 However, this early manifestation of the basic PCR principle did not 
receive much attention, and the invention of the polymerase chain 
reaction in 1983 is generally credited to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis" title="Kary Mullis">Kary Mullis</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-53">[53]</a></sup><br />

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When Mullis developed the PCR in 1983, he was working in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeryville,_California" title="Emeryville, California">Emeryville</a>, California for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetus_Corporation" title="Cetus Corporation">Cetus Corporation</a>, one of the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology" title="Biotechnology">biotechnology</a>
 companies. There, he was responsible for synthesizing short chains of 
DNA. Mullis has written that he conceived of PCR while cruising along 
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_1" title="California State Route 1">Pacific Coast Highway</a> one night in his car.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mullis_54-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Mullis-54">[54]</a></sup>
 He was playing in his mind with a new way of analyzing changes 
(mutations) in DNA when he realized that he had instead invented a 
method of amplifying any DNA region through repeated cycles of 
duplication driven by DNA polymerase. In <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American" title="Scientific American">Scientific American</a></i>,
 Mullis summarized the procedure: "Beginning with a single molecule of 
the genetic material DNA, the PCR can generate 100 billion similar 
molecules in an afternoon. The reaction is easy to execute. It requires 
no more than a test tube, a few simple reagents, and a source of heat."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-55">[55]</a></sup> He was awarded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry" title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> in 1993 for his invention,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kary_Mullis_Nobel_Lecture_5-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Kary_Mullis_Nobel_Lecture-5">[5]</a></sup>
 seven years after he and his colleagues at Cetus first put his proposal
 to practice. However, some controversies have remained about the 
intellectual and practical contributions of other scientists to Mullis' 
work, and whether he had been the sole inventor of the PCR principle 
(see below).<br />

At the core of the PCR method is the use of a suitable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_polymerase" title="DNA polymerase">DNA polymerase</a> able to withstand the high temperatures of >90 °C (194 °F) required for separation of the two DNA strands in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_double_helix" title="DNA double helix">DNA double helix</a> after each <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_replication" title="DNA replication">replication</a> cycle. The DNA polymerases initially employed for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro" title="In vitro">in vitro</a> experiments presaging PCR were unable to withstand these high temperatures.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Saiki1_3-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Saiki1-3">[3]</a></sup>
 So the early procedures for DNA replication were very inefficient and 
time consuming, and required large amounts of DNA polymerase and 
continuous handling throughout the process.<br />

The discovery in 1976 of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq_polymerase" title="Taq polymerase">Taq polymerase</a> — a DNA polymerase purified from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophile" title="Thermophile">thermophilic bacterium</a>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermus_aquaticus" title="Thermus aquaticus">Thermus aquaticus</a></i>, which naturally lives in hot (50 to 80 °C (122 to 176 °F)) environments<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Chien_et_al._12-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Chien_et_al.-12">[12]</a></sup> such as hot springs — paved the way for dramatic improvements of the PCR method. The DNA polymerase isolated from <i>T. aquaticus</i> is stable at high temperatures remaining active even after DNA denaturation,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lawyer_et_al._13-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Lawyer_et_al.-13">[13]</a></sup> thus obviating the need to add new DNA polymerase after each cycle.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Saiki2_4-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-Saiki2-4">[4]</a></sup> This allowed an automated thermocycler-based process for DNA amplification.<br />

<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Patent_disputes">Patent disputes</span></h3>
The PCR technique was patented by Kary Mullis and assigned to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetus_Corporation" title="Cetus Corporation">Cetus Corporation</a>, where Mullis worked when he invented the technique in 1983. The <i>Taq</i>
 polymerase enzyme was also covered by patents. There have been several 
high-profile lawsuits related to the technique, including an 
unsuccessful lawsuit brought by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont" title="DuPont">DuPont</a>. The pharmaceutical company <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmann-La_Roche" title="Hoffmann-La Roche">Hoffmann-La Roche</a> purchased the rights to the patents in 1992 and currently holds those that are still protected.<br />

A related patent battle over the Taq polymerase enzyme is still 
ongoing in several jurisdictions around the world between Roche and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promega" title="Promega">Promega</a>.
 The legal arguments have extended beyond the lives of the original PCR 
and Taq polymerase patents, which expired on March 28, 2005.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#cite_note-56">[56]</a></sup><br />

<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-7"> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">Carr AC, Moore SD (2012). <a class="external text" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365123" rel="nofollow">"Robust quantification of polymerase chain reactions using global fitting"</a>. In Lucia, Alejandro. <i>PloS ONE</i> <b>7</b> (5): e37640. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">doi</a>:<a class="external text" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037640" rel="nofollow">10.1371/journal.pone.0037640</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central" title="PubMed Central">PMC</a> <a class="external text" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365123" rel="nofollow">3365123</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Identifier" title="PubMed Identifier">PMID</a> <a class="external text" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22701526" rel="nofollow">22701526</a>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APolymerase+chain+reaction&rft.atitle=Robust+quantification+of+polymerase+chain+reactions+using+global+fitting&rft.au=Carr+AC%2C+Moore+SD&rft.aulast=Carr+AC%2C+Moore+SD&rft.date=2012&rft.genre=article&rft_id=%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC3365123&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037640&rft_id=info%3Apmc%2F3365123&rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F22701526&rft.issue=5&rft.jtitle=PloS+ONE&rft.pages=e37640&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.volume=7"></span></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-molecular_cloning-8"> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation book">Joseph Sambrook and David W. Russel (2001). <i>Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual</i> (3rd ed.). Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-879-69576-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-879-69576-5">0-879-69576-5</a>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APolymerase+chain+reaction&rft.au=Joseph+Sambrook+and+David+W.+Russel&rft.aulast=Joseph+Sambrook+and+David+W.+Russel&rft.btitle=Molecular+Cloning%3A+A+Laboratory+Manual&rft.date=2001&rft.edition=3rd&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=0-879-69576-5&rft.place=Cold+Spring+Harbor%2C+N.Y.&rft.pub=Cold+Spring+Harbor+Laboratory+Press&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"></span> Chapter 8: In vitro Amplification of DNA by the Polymerase Chain Reaction</span></li>
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<li id="cite_note-14"> <span class="reference-text">Campbell Biology,7th edition</span></li>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.selectscience.net/pcr_buying_guide.aspx" rel="nofollow">A Guide to PCR Technologies</a> SelectScience</li>
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