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Lyophilization as a method to store samples of whole blood
E P Weisberg1, R Giorda, M Trucco
1Department of Pediatrics, Rangos Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Biotechniques
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
We have investigated the feasibility of using lyophilization as a method of preserving whole blood samples for HLA class II molecular typing. Genomic DNA extracted from lyophilized blood appears similar in size to that extracted from fresh or frozen blood and is suitable for both PCR amplification and Southern blot analysis.

