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402 Stirling<br />

5. Homopolymer Regions<br />

Enzyme slippage can occur when a run of the same bases occur consecutively<br />

(sometimes less than 10 for G and C). One solution is to use an anchored primer. This<br />

consists of a string of the repeated base, followed by a degenerate 3′ position of the<br />

other three bases. This allows the sequence to be resumed after the homopolymer but<br />

gives no <strong>info</strong>rmation regarding the number of bases in the repeat. Designing a primer<br />

30 to 40 bases from the start of the homopolymer and increasing the Taq concentration<br />

can improve the chances of reading through the homopolymer.

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