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. 2016 Apr 7;9:17. doi: 10.1186/s12920-016-0172-y

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Fig. 1 — Examples of saliva DNAs having visible impurities. Sample S-2922 has a normal clear appearance, similar to DNAs extracted from blood. The others have various degrees of turbidity and/or brownish/reddish discoloration. Brownish saliva DNAs, S-3053 and S-1829, may have come from specimens contaminated by tobacco, food dyes or lipstick