Development of novel extraction reagents for analyzing dried blood spots from crime scenes
| Autor: | Hae-Min Lee, Sun-Yeong Gwon, Sung Hee Hyun, Jiyeong Lee, Ho Joong Sung, Jung-Hyeon Yang, Hee-Gyoo Kang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Sodium Chloride Optimal composition 01 natural sciences Polymerase Chain Reaction Pathology and Forensic Medicine Luminol Specimen Handling 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine Dried blood Electrophoresis Agar Gel Chromatography Spots Chemistry 010401 analytical chemistry Extraction (chemistry) DNA Forensic Medicine Hydrogen-Ion Concentration DNA Fingerprinting 0104 chemical sciences Dried blood spot Distilled water Blood Stains Reagent Female Indicators and Reagents Law |
| Zdroj: | Forensic science international. 317 |
| ISSN: | 1872-6283 |
| Popis: | Evidence of dried blood is very valuable in forensic science. Since the discovery of luminescence with Luminol and dried blood spots (DBSs) in 1928, interest and research on blood have continued to date. One of the most important factor that DBSs have is genes. However, the current use of distilled water (DDW) to collect and extract blood samples has disadvantages related to DNA stability. Therefore, this study aimed to develop an extraction reagent that is most suitable for gene extraction from DBSs. Blood was collected from 45 healthy adult men and women in vacuum blood containers without coagulants or anticoagulants. The collected blood was dried in various settings to check the performance of the extraction reagent. Extraction with Tris-EDTA (TE) and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) was found more suitable in terms of gene interference effects compared with DDW; their performance was also compared with those of the newly developed extraction reagents. Upon comparing the results of polymerase chain reaction for human genomic DNA samples using glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) gene as the target, the performance of the newly developed extraction reagents, modified TE and PBS, was found to be relatively good. To determine the optimal composition of the developed extraction reagents, 12 new extraction reagents were developed with different pH and sodium concentrations. Among them, the best results were found when the DNA was extracted using extraction reagent No. 3 with pH 8.0 and containing 1 M NaCl. Next, the four extraction reagents, DDW, TE, PBS, and No. 3 were compared under nine different temperature and humidity conditions. Similarly, under various environmental conditions, extraction reagent No. 3 performed better than other reagents. It is proposed that modified TE and PBS mixed extraction reagents are the most suitable for collecting and preserving crime site samples. The proposed composition for a DNA extraction reagent can contribute greatly to crime scene reconstruction. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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