ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Methods for DNA quantification yield similar relative but different absolute values

About authors

1 Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia

2 Research Center for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia

3 Biobank of North Eurasia, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Oleg P. Balanovsky
Gubkina 3, Moscow, 119991; ur.xobni@yksvonalab

About paper

Funding: this study was part of the Government contract with the Research Center for Medical Genetics (Experiment 1). Experiment 2 was supported in part by Grant 17-14-01345 of the Russian Science Foundation.

Author contribution: Balanovsky OP conceived the study, analyzed the obtained data and wrote this manuscript; Kagazezheva ZhA conducted one of the experiments; Olkova MV conducted one of the experiments and analyzed the literature.

Received: 2019-06-21 Accepted: 2019-06-27 Published online: 2019-06-30
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