Title
Evaluation of two FTA card elutions with sterile vs distilled water
Date Issued
01 December 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Gómez B.
Mármol P.
Gomes C.
Hernández-Cordero A.
Martín-Arrebola M.
Rosell-Herrera R.
López-Parra A.M.
Palomo-Díez S.
Labajo-González E.
Perea-Pérez B.
Baeza-Richer C.
Arroyo-Pardo E.
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria el Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
DNA extraction is frequently the starting point for all the experiments in biomedical and forensic research [1]. Nowadays, there are multiple commercial kits that allow carrying out the extraction rapidly, but often with a high financial cost. With the aim of presenting an alternative to these commercial kits, we have proposed two new DNA extraction methods using water. The extractions were carried out over FTA cards impregnated with blood, and using as extraction reagent two types of water. For the essays, it was compared the efficiency of using sterile water versus distilled water, with two objectives: 1) Finding out if the extraction was possible with both types of water and 2) Knowing what kind of water provided the best results. Our first results showed that distilled water was the best reagent for DNA extraction from blood, generating more positive results (mitochondrial DNA sequences with very good quality) than sterilized water. A possible reason is that distilled water has low ion concentration, allowing a stronger interaction with the DNA attached to the matrix of the FTA card and therefore a more effective extraction. It is our intent to perform in the future a similar extraction process, but with water both sterilized and distilled.
Start page
727
End page
729
Volume
7
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia forense Genética, Herencia
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85074441567
Source
Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series
ISSN of the container
18751768
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the research project (Santander-Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, https://www.bancosantander.es/es/universidades ) [G/6401400/8000] for C.G; and BES2010-035322, and by [PR41/17-21018] project, funded by Banco Santander-Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain ( https://www.bancosantander.es/es/universidades )
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