The quality of DNA recovered from the archival tissues of atomic bomb survivors is good enough for the single nucleotide polymorphism analysis in spite of the decade-long preservation in formalin

Journal of Radiation Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-75

  Nitta, Yumiko ^a   Tanaka, Hideo ^a   Masuda, Yuji ^a   Hoshi, Masaharu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archival specimens; Atomic bomb survivors; Formalin fixation; PCR; SNP

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE;

ARCHIVAL SPECIMEN; ARCHIVAL TISSUES; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS; BASE PAIRS; FORMALIN FIXATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; PCR; POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; SNP;

DNA;

DNA; FORMALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC WARFARE; BLOOD CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; LIVER; MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; BONE MARROW CELLS; DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEAR WARFARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 0041869471     PISSN: 04493060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.43.65     Document Type: Article

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