Clinical Applications of PCR (Methods in Molecular...

Title: Clinical Applications of PCR (Methods in Molecular Medicine)

Description:

Clinical Applications of PCR offers a collection of core PCR techniques for the

study and diagnosis of human diseases. Cutting-edge and essential for today's

diagnostic laboratories, these techniques heavily utilize nonisotopic, solution

phase, and in situ amplification methods. A significant number of chapters

describe applications exploiting the exquisite sensitivity of PCR in the

detection of rare or single cells, as in identifying fetal cells circulating in

maternal blood, preimplantation embryo diagnosis, or detecting circulating

cancer cells.

The methods described in Clinical Applications of PCR will well serve diverse

clinical specialties ranging from hematology/oncology, human genetics, and

microbiology, to virology, pathology, and infectious diseases. The book

repeatedly demonstrates the power of PCR - its high sensitivity, specificity,

and ability to rapidly discriminate sequence variations.

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