Hello
Please use internet primer3, primer check and blast.
Use 5 degrees more in annealing temperature and 1.5 mm to mM of MgCl2 for PCR 
mixture.
If u still have problems change primers again or polymerase.
Good luck 

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Le 22 mars 2014 à 01:40, "Silky" <[email protected]> a écrit :

> The set of primers that gives you multiple bands is non-specifically binding 
> to other areas if your Sna sample. You could first try to increase the 
> annealing temp (temp at which the primers bind to the template) and see if 
> that helps. If that doesn't work you can try redesigning your primers a 
> little longer (usual length us 20-22 bp). Both of the above factors will 
> increase specificity and reduce smear or multiple bands. 
> 
> I would also try to go in genome browser website and try to blast then to the 
> genome and see if they are binding to multiple sites. We used to always do 
> that before trying any PCR or ordering primers. 
> 
> Good luck!
> 
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>> On Mar 12, 2014, at 11:04 AM, June May <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, I have a PCR problem and I can really use some help. This is an 
>> established protocol we've been using for genotyping for a while. I'd say 
>> half of the time it works beautifully. Sometimes we get multiple bands. 
>> Sometimes I get smears for one set of primers but not the other set. Once I 
>> got nice bands for some DNA sample but smear for others while I extracted 
>> those samples together. I use the DNA sample for other PCRs and they work 
>> just fine. I use my mastermix and PCR machine for other PCRs too so I don't 
>> think there's a problem there. Can anybody give me some pointers as to why 
>> this keeps happening?
>> 
>> Thank you very much!
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