Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used in diagnosis of infectious diseases, detection of genetic diseases, mutation screening, sex determination of embryos, prenatal testing, genotyping, gene therapy, paternity testing and forensics. Please take a look at the following references for more details.
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Article Polymerase chain reaction: Theory, practice and application: A review
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Used widely in agricultural and food industries, gene expression analysis, the diagnosis of infectious disease and human genetic testing....serves as an alternative to traditional detection methods ..... used in forensics laboratories, for the diagnosis of microbial infections and epidemiological studies and is especially useful because only a tiny amount of original DNA is required( example, sufficient DNA can be obtained from a droplet of blood or a single hair)...
PCR has many different applications: In medicine (diagnostic of genetic diseases, mutations in cancer, identification of pathogen agents); in agriculture (transgenic plants, plant genetics, plant pathology); identification of individuals (parental search, search for criminals); In science ( evolution research, molecular biology)….