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amplicon

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[am-pluh-kahn] / ˈæm pləˌkɑn /

noun

  • amplicons
    plural
  1. Genetics. a piece of DNA or RNA that is the template for or the product of an amplification process, in which the DNA or RNA has been duplicated.


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Then, the researchers used 16s rRNA sequencing and amplicon sequencing, ultimately identifying 333 BPA-resistant bacterial species.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024

Gel electrophoresis confirmed that the size of the PCR product corresponded to the expected amplicon size.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017

Analysis of the partial 16S rRNA gene sequence generated from the 16S rRNA gene amplicon libraries was carried out using the mothur MiSeq SOP34 on 29 August 2014, generating 7,549 OTUs across all samples.

From Nature ● May 3, 2016

No amplicon covers the extreme 3′ region of the genome.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

The 3q26 amplicon was present in all of the subtypes, but it was most characteristic of the classical subtype, which also showed the greatest overexpression of three known oncogenes on 3q: SOX2, TP63 and PIK3CA.

From Nature ● Sep. 26, 2012

These samples failed to generate amplicons using any of these primer pairs and were subsequently excluded from the analysis on the basis that they were likely to be of poor quality.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017

PCR amplicons were subjected to paired-end sequencing using Illumina Miniseq.

From Nature ● Aug. 1, 2017

Archived Zaire Ebolavirus was amplified using 38 primer pairs, giving approximately 500 base pair amplicons, according to the study protocol.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

We assumed that difficulties generating long amplicons related to low numbers of starting molecules of that length in the original sample.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

We failed to generate amplicons for some samples, resulting in missing regions of the genome.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

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