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 ReviewDNA methods for identification of Chinese medicinal materialsPui Ying Yip1  , Chi Fai Chau2 , Chun Yin Mak1 and Hoi Shan Kwan1  1Department of Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong 2Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuokuang Road, Taichung 40227, Taiwan  author email corresponding author email
Chinese Medicine 2007,
2:9doi:10.1186/1749-8546-2-9
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Abstract
As adulterated and substituted Chinese medicinal materials are common in the market, therapeutic effectiveness of such materials cannot be guaranteed. Identification at species-, strain- and locality-levels, therefore, is required for quality assurance/control of Chinese medicine. This review provides an informative introduction to DNA methods for authentication of Chinese medicinal materials. Technical features and examples of the methods based on sequencing, hybridization and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are described and their suitability for different identification objectives is discussed. | 
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