Medical Definition of Amplified fragment length polymorphism
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Invented by KeyGene, a Dutch biotech company based in Wageningen, Holland. The technique is now merchandised under licence agreement by Perkin Elmer.
Selected markers are amplified in a PCR, which makes amplified fragment length polymorphism an easy and fast tool for strain identification in agriculture, botany, microbiology and animal breeding.
Acronym: AFLP
(05 Feb 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism
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