Rutgers-NJMS Team Describes Multiplexed 'SuperSelective' PCR Primers for Rare Mutation Detection

Jun 08, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers at Rutgers University and the New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers have published a description of "SuperSelective" PCR primers that enable detection of extremely rare SNPs in a background of wild-type DNA and demonstrated how they can be used for quantitative multiplex cancer-related assays.

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