An improved rapid method for DNA recovery from cotton swabs

Alexander Gray; Agnieszka Kuffel; Niamh Nic Daeid

doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2023.102848

An improved rapid method for DNA recovery from cotton swabs

Alexander Gray (Lead / Corresponding author), Agnieszka Kuffel, Niamh Nic Daeid

Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science

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Abstract

We present a novel rapid method for the recovery of cellular and free DNA from cotton swabs based on a simple elution buffer containing a high molecular weight polymer and detergent combined with a short proteinase K digestion to release cellular DNA. This method shows increased yields approaching 80% recovery of the input DNA compared to the QIAamp DNA Mini kit standard extraction protocol for swabs which has a recovery of 20–30%. The buffer components in the described method are compatible with direct PCR analysis of the isolated DNA without further purification. Recovery efficiencies were estimated by qPCR.

Original language	English
Article number	102848
Number of pages	11
Journal	Forensic Science International: Genetics
Volume	64
Early online date	16 Feb 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2023.102848
Publication status	Published - May 2023

Keywords

Cotton swabs
Direct PCR
DNA recovery
Extraction

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Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Genetics

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