TY - JOUR AU - Fowler, Katie E. AU - Reitter, Chris P. AU - Walling, Grant A. AU - Griffin, Darren K. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/09/13 TI - Novel approach for deriving genome wide SNP analysis data from archived blood spots JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 503 VL - 5 IS - 1 AB - The ability to transport and store DNA at room temperature in low volumes has the advantage of optimising cost, time and storage space. Blood spots on adapted filter papers are popular for this, with FTA (Flinders Technology Associates) Whatman™TM technology being one of the most recent. Plant material, plasmids, viral particles, bacteria and animal blood have been stored and transported successfully using this technology, however the method of porcine DNA extraction from FTA Whatman™TM cards is a relatively new approach, allowing nucleic acids to be ready for downstream applications such as PCR, whole genome amplification, sequencing and subsequent application to single nucleotide polymorphism microarrays has hitherto been under-explored. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-503 DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-5-503 ID - Fowler2012 ER -