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This occurs with step-wise addition methods when growing primers move out of synchronicity for any given cycle. Lagging strands (for example, n - 1 from the expected cycle) result from incomplete extension, and leading strands (for example, n + 1) result from the addition of multiple nucleotides or probes in a population of identical templates. (Metzker 2010)