Sex identification of ancient DNA samples using a microfluidic device |
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Authors: | Joseph Parton Naglaa Abu-Mandil Hassan Terence A. Brown Stephen J. Haswell Keri A. Brown Kirsty J. Shaw |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK;2. Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK |
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Abstract: | A microfluidic device has been developed for the sex identification of ancient DNA samples and works by manipulating liquids within an environment of micrometer dimensions. In this work a range of microfluidic DNA extraction methods were evaluated for their compatibility with ancient DNA samples, and the use of streptavidin-coated super paramagnetic particles to isolate biotin-labeled abasic sites within damaged DNA was shown to be the most reproducible. Polymerase chain reaction-based DNA amplification was possible on the microfluidic device when less than 50 pg of template DNA was added. As a proof-of-principle, powdered bone samples were analysed using the integrated methodology developed. Following conventional capillary gel electrophoresis, two out of the three samples produced positive amplification results and were successfully identified as female. These sex identifications were corroborated by independent Amelogenin, anthropological and Y chromosome analysis. The work reported here is the first step in the development of a complete miniaturized microfluidic system that would enable on-site ancient DNA analysis. |
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Keywords: | Amelogenin Ancient DNA Biomolecular archaeology Microfluidics Sex identification |
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