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Saliva as a viable alternative source of human genomic DNA in genetic epidemiology.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 May 2006
Ng Daniel P K, Koh David, Choo Serena, Chia Kee-Seng
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Saliva is a potentially useful but untapped source of genomic DNA for genetic epidemiological studies. However, current commercial methods are mainly concerned with DNA extraction and do not address important issues concerning saliva preservation and storage. As such, we evaluated how various saliva storage conditions affected DNA yield and quality obtained using a new commercially available method...
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