Qiagen Gmbh

Michele Wisniewski

Roger S Lasken

Seiyu Hosono

Mark Driscoll

Frank B Dean

Osama A Alsmadi

A Fawad Faruqi

Linhua Fang

Carole Bornarth

Arumugham Raghunathan

Wanmin Song

Fawad A Faruqi

Disclosed are compositions and methods for amplification of nucleic acid sequences of interest. It has been discovered that amplification reactions can produce amplification products of high quality, such as low amplification bias, if performed on an amount of nucleic acid at or over a threshold amount and/or on nucleic acids at or below a threshold concentration. The threshold amount and concentration can vary depending on the nature and source of the nucleic acids to be amplified and the type of amplification reaction employed. Disclosed is a method of determining the threshold amount and/or threshold concentration of nucleic acids that can be used with nucleic acid samples of interest in amplification reactions of interest. Because amplification reactions can produce high quality amplification products, such as low bias amplification products, below the threshold amount and/or concentration of nucleic acid, such below-threshold amounts and/or concentrations can be used in amplification reactions.

Method for nucleic acid amplification that results in low amplification bias

Disclosed are compositions and a method for amplification of nucleic acid sequences of interest. The disclosed method generally involves replication of a target sequence such that, during replication, the replicated strands are displaced from the target sequence by strand displacement replication of another replicated strand. In one form of the disclosed method, the target sample is not subjected to denaturing conditions. It was discovered that the target nucleic acids, genomic DNA, for example, need not be denatured for efficient multiple displacement amplification. The primers used can be hexamer primers. The primers can also each contain at least one modified nucleotide such that the primers are nuclease resistant. The primers can also each contain at least one modified nucleotide such that the melting temperature of the primer is altered relative to a primer of the same sequence without the modified nucleotide(s). The DNA polymerase can be &#x3c6;29 DNA polymerase.

Amplification of denatured and stabilized nucleic acids

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Hamden, CT, United States of America

Michele Wisniewski