Arbitrarily amplified DNA

Arbitrarily amplified DNA (AAD) refers to a family of DNA profiling methods that amplify template nucleic acids with arbitrary oligonucleotide primers using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). AAD includes the first methodologies introduced in the very early 1990s within a span of only few months: random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), and DNA amplification fingerprinting (DAF).

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