Heminested

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Partially nested not-comparable

    "In order to allocate alleles with overlapping peaks to a specific locus, the reverse primers used in simple PCRs and the internal reverse primers used in heminested and nested PCRs were 5’ labeled with HEX (4,7,2’,4’,5’,7’-hexachloro-6-carboxyfluorescein), FAM (6-carboxyfluorescein), or TAMRA (6-carboxytetramethylrhodamine), according to the predicted fragment size."

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"In order to allocate alleles with overlapping peaks to a specific locus, the reverse primers used in simple PCRs and the internal reverse primers used in heminested and nested PCRs were 5’ labeled with HEX (4,7,2’,4’,5’,7’-hexachloro-6-carboxyfluorescein), FAM (6-carboxyfluorescein), or TAMRA (6-carboxytetramethylrhodamine), according to the predicted fragment size."

Etymology

From hemi- + nested.

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