Table 3. Concentration and purity of DNA isolated from the milk of different animal species, using the method of Pokorska et al. (2015).
| Species | Number of samples | Concentration of DNA |
Purity of DNA |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average concentration of DNA (ng/µL)* | Minimum concentration of DNA (ng/µL)* | Maximum concentration of DNA (ng/µL)* | Standard deviation | 260/280 (nm) | Standard deviation | ||
| Cattle | 250 | 684.64 | 50.0 | 2090.0 | 471.88 | 1.79 | 0.06 |
| Sheep | 53 | 198.63 | 10.0 | 1322.4 | 318.94 | 1.60 | 0.30 |
| Goat | 25 | 867.86 | 53.4 | 2809.6 | 824.30 | 1.84 | 0.11 |
| Horse | 10 | 33.00 | 13.0 | 53.0 | 28.28 | 1.81 | 0.21 |
| Human | 2 | Woman 1: concentration, 148 ng/µL; purity, 1.83 Woman 2: concentration, 300 ng/µL; purity, 1.85 | |||||
*All DNA samples were dissolved in 100 µL TE buffer.