Universal Primer System At IGMC Can Save You Money!

Instead of buying individually fluorescently labeled oligos for genotyping, which can get expensive, you can use unlabeled oligos along with a M13 labeled primer from the center. The center will inexpensively provide fluorescently labeled M13 primers which can be easily incorporated into most primer systems. Users provide their individual unlabeled oligos with the forward primer containing the M13 sequence at the 5’, and use our labeled M13 primer to create labeled fragments for genotypic detection. This method can easily be adapted to your existing PCR protocols with the simple addition of a few more cycles to incorporate the M13 labeled primer to your product. The center manager can help optimize PCR protocols for use in this system. Contact the center for more information.


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