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From: "Nelda Percival" <>
Subject: [DNA] MOVEING A DNA SAMPLE
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:00:22 -0800
In-Reply-To: <000201c72d5b$987b9be0$4001a8c0@BigMem2>


Thank You John,
I re-list John's answer here as it is very very important! See it below my
statement...
Nelda


----Original Message Follows----
From: "John McEwan" <>

Nelda said
..........
As far as not being able to get a new specimen from a person, has anyone
asked to have their specimens moved to a different company, so that company
can use part of it for testing? This should be available to a customer for a
price. Also, returning it to the custodial company for continued storage?
The specimen does not belong to the company holding it, it belongs to the
customer, and making it available for use at a different company and its
return to storage, should be part of the agreement of storage.
.........

Okay, new years day here with many visitors so will be quick, before I
crank up the BBQ.

My wife works for an animal genotyping company and they get requests all
the time to ship DNA samples to other competing companies and vice versa
from their clients. There is no problem, but there IS an implicit cost
involved.

Who owns the sample is actually in the fine print of the contract, but
reality intrudes, if a customer requests something they normally get
what they want or you have a permanently disgruntled customer. No
contest really.

There are a number of well proven widely adopted technologies to amplify
DNA (we use GenomiPhi mostly for technical reasons). There is a cost
(~$20 would be reasonable with labor), but scarcity of remaining DNA in
the sample cannot be used as a viable excuses to not split the sample. I
also have to say "exhausting" an existing DNA sample should also not now
be acceptable. However, there is always the human factor though, so
accidents to samples can still happen.

If I was the company dealing with human samples I would want to use a
legal transfer form of course.

Happy new year

John McEwan

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