Nucleic acids from 100 μl whole-blood samples stored in RNAprotect Cell Reagent were extracted using MagNAPure LC automatic extractor (Total Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit—High Performance, Roche Applied Science) and used for qPCR targeting
18S rRNA
41 (link). Genomic DNA from the same extraction was used to test for human haemoglobinopathies haemoglobin S and C
42 (link).
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