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Isolation of genomic DNA from mammalian cells
1Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Methods in Enzymology
|September 10, 2013
Abstract:
The isolation of genomic DNA from mammalian cells is a routine molecular biology laboratory technique with numerous downstream applications. The isolated DNA can be used as a template for PCR, cloning, and genotyping and to generate genomic DNA libraries. It can also be used for sequencing to detect mutations and other alterations, and for DNA methylation analyses.
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