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electrophoresis - Band smearing for re-pcr product (Oct/27/2009 )

will the electrophoresis band smears when ur PCR product has been reamplified for several times? tq

-Xenn-

Xenn on Oct 26 2009, 11:53 PM said:

will the electrophoresis band smears when ur PCR product has been reamplified for several times? tq

bands smear usually due to 1. too much DNA, 2. DNase presents.
from my expreience re-amplification with the same primers may yield a very large amount of primer dimer, and if the same time DNase present would have smeared bands (or lanes)

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