is DNA present in a urine sample?

[normanprice]

Answers please

don't think its the obvious place to look .. hair / saliva / blood

why are you asking?

think you can extract DNA from anything that comes from the human body.....

although the answer is Yes you can get a dna profile from a urine sample

Don't think so. DNA swabs are usually taken from inside the cheek (a very little scraping with a cotton bud type thing).

oh, I stand corrected. Bit of a funny first post ....

If there are cells in there, yes. Won't be much though.

wha' do you know tamum .. you're just a plumber

I like to pretend though Twiglett, indulge me :o

.. how come I've missed bumping posts with you for a while .. I like bumping posts with yhou

I ask because my erm friend has to have a health check at her new job and has to give a sample. She is very against letting anyone having any of her DNA as a lot can be deduced from this. It is nothing to do with the recreational greenery that might show up.

what has she got to hide??? curiouser and curiouser .. don't understand that

is she a russian spy?

Me too Twiglett :)

Erm, I think the chances of anyone being desperate enough to try and get enough DNA out of her urine for unspecified purposes are pretty slim, and would break any kind of ethical guidelines, so she should rest easy.

Why thank you

ahh but has she studied at the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna??? A girl I went to school with (it was a tiny school so you knew everyone very well) is doing her PhD there now (and she was turned down by Cambridge for her Undergraduate) - so nuuuuuuuh

I haven't, but dh was one of the founders of it.

Tamum could take 'er

Do I have to spell it out to you ??

I'm afraid you do rather, normanprice- what on earth does she think they will be looking for in her DNA?

why would they normanprice? seems a bit paranoid to me.......

yes you do .. c'mon norman spell it out

recreational greenery wouldn't show up in DNA .. but would in a urine test I'm sure

so is it drug screening you .. ahem she .. is scared of .. or actual DNA profiling

ooo - really Tamum - I'm impressed (she was too clever for her own good actually - left school with 5 A's at A levels, 10 A's at Scottish Highers and I think it was either 5 or 6 A'a at CSYS - including such bizarre topics are Modern Greek, all the sciences, French and German - and on top of that we were at a specialist music school so she was a fabulous violinst.

I believe her dad was quite brainy too though.......

she sounds like a bit of a paranoid youknowwhat, unless she was a 'he' at some point and is scared that they'll find out ?

I think the possibility of looking at her DNA is a cover story for not giving a sample due to other substances possibly being present

How bizarre