The technique of pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) enables researchers to separate linear DNA fragments of up to 10 Mb. The technique was first described by Schwartz and Cantor () and differs from conventional gel electrophoresis by requiring the DNA molecules periodically to change their direction of migration.
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Hillier et al. (2003) studied this question.