A simple method for DNA isolation from clotted blood extricated rapidly from serum separator tubes

Steven Se Fum Wong1, Jeffrey J Kuei, Naina Prasad

  • 1Institute for Genetic Medicine and Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.

Clinical Chemistry
|January 20, 2007
PubMed
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