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Whole genome amplification and real-time PCR in forensic casework

Emiliano Giardina1*, Ilenia Pietrangeli1, Claudia Martone1, Stefania Zampatti1, Patrizio Marsala2, Luciano Gabriele2, Omero Ricci2, Gianluca Solla2, Paola Asili2, Giovanni Arcudi3, Aldo Spinella2 and Giuseppe Novelli1,4

Author Affiliations

1 Centre of Excellence for Genomic Risk Assessment in Multifactorial and Complex Diseases, School of Medicine, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy

2 Direzione Centrale Anticrimine, Servizio di Polizia Scientifica, Rome, Italy

3 Department of Public Health – Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy

4 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:159 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-159

Published: 14 April 2009

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Values of calls, concordant genotypes, concordance rate, call rate and genotype concordance in genomic and amplified DNA with TaqMan® Universal Master Mix. The genotyping results for each SNP are given for dilutions of 1 ng, 0.1 ng and 0.01 ng (first, second and third row respectively). Genotypes derived from direct sequencing were used as reference for determining concordance.

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Values of calls, concordant genotypes, concordance rate, call rate and genotype concordance in genomic and amplified DNA with TaqMan® Genotyping Master Mix. The genotyping results for each SNP are given for dilutions of 1 ng, 0.1 ng and 0.01 ng (first, second and third row respectively). Genotypes derived from direct sequencing were used as reference for determining concordance.

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Values of calls, concordant genotypes, concordance rate, call rate and genotype concordance in genomic and amplified artificially-degraded DNA. The results reported are obtained from MDA amplification of high artificially-degraded DNA (180 s). Genotypes derived from direct sequencing were used as reference for determining concordance.

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