Newswatcher at sickkids.on.ca (Newswatcher) wrote:
>>Is it just a smear? Or will I see couple of bands also?
>>2 of my DNA samples showed same bands on top of slight smearing upon
>electrophoresis, though most of the DNA are above 10kb. Just wondering if
>that's degradations or contaminations.
Agnes:
Could the smear you are seeing be RNA? Did you RNAse your prep before
putting it on the gel?
- Magdalena M. Plewinska, MD
Genetics
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
