Methods in molecular genetics
whatever happened and the
DNA you prepared is of lousy quality, then use this method!!
for DNA-preparations from specimens of lower quality (heparin-stabilised, older than 5 days, hemolysed), I actually use a commercially available DNA-extraction kit. It provides DNA of good quality and is very fast:
QIAGEN-QIAamp Blood Kit Mini (~200ml of blood) /Midi (~2 ml of blood)
for an excellent example go here
(literature contributed by: skladny-marachelian-niachos)
As the recipe and the working-instruction may be changed by the supplier
(QIAGEN),
I won't give a detailed description.
Just that much:
you may use EDTA- or heparin stabilised blood-samples or even amniocytes.
Lyse them
with lysis-buffer and load the whole thing onto the affinity-columns.
The DNA is bound to the column and washed twice. The elution of DNA is
performed
within 5 to 10 min and gives comparable results to the classical phenol-chloroform
method.
Even older specimens may be extracted succesfully with this method.