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Extraction of nucleic acids from bone
Alun Hughes1, Tracy L Stewart, Val Mann
1Musculoskeletal Research Programme, Division of Applied Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. a.hughes@abdn.ac.uk
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|December 2, 2011
Abstract:
Here, we present methods for extracting DNA and RNA from samples of whole bone tissue and culture bone cells and describe methods quantitative and qualitative measurement of the extracted nucleic acids. These protocols described provide high-quality nucleic acids suitable for downstream applications such as quantitative PCR and microarrays.
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