DNA Contamination
"DNA Contamination" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The presence of DNA from a source foreign to the sample being analysed.
| Descriptor ID |
D059018
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.998.293 E05.200.998.293 E05.393.290.573 E05.393.760.700.224 I01.198.780.937.375.500
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| Concept/Terms |
DNA Contamination- DNA Contamination
- Contamination, DNA
- Contaminations, DNA
- DNA Contaminations
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Below are the most recent publications written about "DNA Contamination" by people in Profiles.
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Weiss S, Amir A, Hyde ER, Metcalf JL, Song SJ, Knight R. Tracking down the sources of experimental contamination in microbiome studies. Genome Biol. 2014 Dec 17; 15(12):564.