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ArticleJournal of clinical laboratory analysis2011

Troubleshooting fine-tuning procedures for qPCR system design.

Alessandro Raso, Samantha Mascelli, Paolo Nozza, Elisabetta Ugolotti, Irene Vanni, Valeria Capra, Roberto Biassoni

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Article in Journal of clinical laboratory analysis, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Suggested guidelines for validation of real-time PCR assays in veterinary diagnostic laboratories.Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2020
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  7. Validation of a real-time PCR assay for the molecular identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2014
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7 authors.

Alessandro RasoNeurosurgery Unit, Giannina Gaslini Children's Research Hospital, Genoa, Italy. rasoale@yahoo.it
Samantha Mascelli
Paolo Nozza
Elisabetta Ugolotti
Irene Vanni
Valeria Capra
Roberto Biassoni

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) has been improved and optimized over the past decade for a wide range of applications. Design of primers and probes is one of the crucial steps to obtain high system efficiency of qPCR since design pitfalls influence negatively amplification performances. We report the results of some experiments. First, we demonstrate the utility of optimal primer design and concentration in PCR by constructing suboptimal primers, for instance with hairpin and primer-dimers secondarystructures, and quantifying the decrease in efficiency of amplification. Second, we show the adverse effects of the target sequence harboring stable secondary structures on the primer binding sites. Finally, we let see that the mere use of probe-based detection is not enough to ensure robustness of qPCR data, because the eventual detrimental products generated by primers not well designed may influence in any case the PCR efficiency.

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DNA PrimersReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionDNA ProbesEquipment DesignRNASensitivity and SpecificityDNA PrimersDNA ProbesRNA

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PMID22086791
PMCPMC6647679

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