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The number of cord blood samples received for a variety of applications has increased in our laboratory. This has led us to evaluate an automated method to improve the TAT and yield of the DNA extraction. Our current procedure for cord blood samples requires an overnight incubation that is labor intensive. Cord blood segments and frozen red cell fractions were received from the Duke Cord Blood Bank...