Thanks. I tried 23andme, the sent me a form email regarding their international support -- no help. I'll try swabs, thanks.
On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:58:05 AM UTC+3, Xabier Vázquez Campos wrote:
Probably it is easier to contact 23andme directly as they provide the paid postage for returning the samples included in the price of the kit and they may have dealt with something like this before.--
In case they don't provide a solution, I don't think transport saliva is the best. A sterile swab tube for DNA testing may be possible to find maybe in a pharmacy or hospital as DNA and specially paternity test are getting more and more common. If not, sampling tubes for taking microbiological samples from surfaces, typical quality control in industry, should be OK:
http://www.rapidmicrobiology.com/test-methods/Swabs.php
El miércoles, 21 de noviembre de 2012 18:31:44 UTC+11, Patrik D'haeseleer escribió:Couldn't you just take the kit back to your home country, and mail the sample from there? That seems like it would be a much more reliable approach.
On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:15:56 PM UTC-8, osazuwa wrote:I plan to order a 23andme kit for my wife. We currently reside in a country where 23andme cannot ship a kit. However, I am returning to the US for New Years. I plan to purchase a kit for my wife, have it arrive at my US address, and physically bring her saliva sample with me when I travel and send it back with the kit.
So a question for those with wet lab training, what is your advice on the best way to do this. What container should I use? How should I minimize contamination? In my current role I may be able to get access to wet lab materials, is their some standardized container I should try to acquire or can even use in lieu of the contain 23andme sends in their kit?
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