Letters in Health and Biological SciencesLetters in Health and Biological SciencesLetters in Health and Biological SciencesLetters in Health and Biological Sciences2475-6245Ommega Online PublishersNew Jersey, USA159010.15436/2475-6245.17.020Research ArticleDNA by Mail: Ensure DNA Integrity by use of Self-Drying Buccal SwabsDNA by Mail: Ensure DNA Integrity by use of Self-Drying Buccal SwabsNicoleBauer 1Amway GmbH Benzstr 11 b-c D-82178 Puchheim Germany 2Novogenia GmbH Saalachstr 92 A-5020 Salzburg Austria 3Access Business Group Buena Park CA 90621 United States Editor* E-mail: deunbaue@amway.com
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20172107201722LHBS-17-SC-159030062017180720172017Creative Commons Attribution LicenseThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. nbsp emsp emsp The goal of this research was to evaluate the quantity and quality of deoxyribonucleic acid DNA material collected by at-home-sampling using self-drying buccal swabs in a sterile laboratory setting compared against a 10 000 subject sample of real-world swabs processed by consumers and analyzed by a hub-lab of the Sponsor using the same extraction and analysis methodology Buccal swab DNA concentration was observedon two variables DNA concentration over time and DNA sample response to environmental conditions 10