Evidence for preferential genotyping of a minority human immunodeficiency virus population due to primer-template mismatching during PCR-based amplification.
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SUBMITTER: Martinez-Picado J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC540107 | biostudies-other | 2005 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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