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Nucleic acid storage on FTA cards from cytological samples
Author(s) -
Caputo V.,
Picariello C.,
Lucchese L.,
Selleri C.,
Zeppa P.,
Peluso A. L.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1365-2303
pISSN - 0956-5507
DOI - 10.1111/cyt.12441
Subject(s) - rna , nucleic acid , fragmentation (computing) , dna , biology , computer science , biochemistry , operating system , gene
DNA from lymphoid cells can be stored on FTA cards and are suitable for molecular investigations. RNA was not obtained, from the same samples, with the same procedure. The weaknesses of FTA card RNA storage may be due to the high fragmentation of RNA on this support.