The very small amounts of DNA targeted and analyzed by these procedures means that not only are they extremely vulnerable to contamination by extraneous DNA, but also to allele dropout (ADO; where one or both of the 2 alleles at any locus fails to amplify) which can compromise the accuracy of the diagnoses (12-14).
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