Simple Identification of DNA Samples Using Multiplex PCR

다중 중합효소연쇄반응을 이용한 핵산시료의 동정방법

  • Park, Hwa-Yong (Department of Medical Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) ;
  • Yu, Hyun-Joo (Department of Medical Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
  • 박화용 (한국한의학연구원 의료연구부) ;
  • 유현주 (한국한의학연구원 의료연구부)
  • Published : 2008.04.25

Abstract

Serious controls and cares using ID numbers and barcode needed throughly to have appropriate management in clinical tissues and nucleic acids inventories because these samples are the most essential and important materials in the experimental research laboratories. While almost all of the laboratories using and handling DNA samples as starting materials in their research, problems such as mixing up of two or more different samples together, contamination with other samples, and/or mistakes can occur, especially when it comes with large number of samples. These problems are rather frequent even though researchers pay more attentions to be far away from these obstacles. It has been such a long time since PCR became useful as an important and essential biological research tool among lots of bio-scientific research methods. In this research, we tried to set up a simple and cost-effective genotyping method using PCR and agarose gels, instead of expensive automated machines, for identification and discrimination among those DNA samples, as a kind of low level quality control and sample inventory management.

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