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. 2010 Mar 12;38(8):2570–2576. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq099

Table 1.

Efficiency of several DNA modification methods for engineering M. genitalium genomes in yeast

Method Fraction of clones with the correct modificationa Fraction of clones with a complete genomeb
Traditional sequence replacement 0/97 0/22
Tandem repeat pop-out 0/38 1/9
Tandem repeat endonuclease cleavage (TREC) 28/28 10/10
Cre/loxP recombinase 28/30 4/4

aEstimated by diagnostic PCR.

bEstimated by multiplex PCR assay.