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However, in one test, around 5% of randomly selected C. elegans genomic sequences were found to have the capacity to fold into plausible miRNA precursor hairpins [ 11 ] . This suggests that computational prediction of miRNAs based on presumed structure alone would have an unacceptably high false-positive rate.
Real time ERCA genotyping reactions were performed using FVL and H63D probes with and without 3' hairpins (Figures 6, 7, 8and 9).
Control probes lacking hairpins were constructed in two different ways: 1) Hairpins in the FVL probes were removed by simply deleting the non-target directed OCP sequence involved in hairpin formation.
To determine the effect of the 3' hairpin on genotyping accuracy, probes with and without 3' hairpins were designed for both the Factor V Leiden and Hemochromatosis H63D mutations (Table 1).
Beyond the village of Yangdi unfolds the uncanny scenery that prompted a Chinese poet more than a thousand years ago to write: “The river is a green silk belt, the mountains emerald hairpins.”