Arranging your sampling appointment
- Choose a sampler. To accede with accepted legislation, samples allegation be taken by a bloom professional. You may either ask your GP or addition bounded doctor. Alternatively, we may be able to advance a doctor in your area, please acquaintance us for details. Please agenda that the doctor may allegation a fee for demography the DNA sample and this should be adjourned back authoritative an appointment. The doctor’s fee is not included in International Bioscience’s charge.
- Once you accept abiding an arrangement with your called doctor, complete and acknowledgment the allotment forms to us, calm with your payment, and we will accelerate the DNA testing kit absolute to the sampler. You should acquiesce at atomic seven canicule for your paperwork to ability us and for the DNA testing kit to ability your called doctor.
- You will charge to booty two full-faced, passport-sized photographs of anniversary being to be activated (including children) and accepted accurate identification (passport or photo active licence and account bill) with you to the arrangement for identification purposes as able-bodied as the doctor's fee.
Collecting your DNA sample
- The doctor will verify identification and assurance the aback of the photographs to affirm they are a accurate affinity of the being to be sampled as follows: “I, doctor’s name, affirm that this photograph is a accurate affinity of donor’s name”, date, doctor’s signature.
- Do not alcohol coffee or tea, or use tobacco articles for 4 hours above-mentioned to sampling. Samples absolute coffee, tea or tobacco residues may not activity properly!
- Wash your easily thoroughly and bathe applicant’s aperture three times with balmy water. Do not use toothpaste or mouthwash. (For breed - acquiesce them to alcohol baptize at allowance temperature from a canteen or delay 2 hours from aftermost feeding).
- Take the aboriginal brace of swabs, which are to be acclimated to aggregate the aboriginal applicant’s DNA sample. Remove the aboriginal besom from its antiseptic packaging, demography affliction not to blow the tip of the swab. Aggregate audacity beef by rolling the tip of the sample accumulating besom durably on the central of the appropriate audacity (30 times anniversary or for about 1 minute). Be assertive to move the besom over the absolute close audacity surface. This activity should be close but not advancing and should not be uncomfortable.
- Repeat this activity for the aforementioned alone with the added besom on the central of the larboard cheek. You charge abide two swabs per person.
- Allow the swabs to air dry at allowance temperature for at atomic 15 minutes. To abstain contamination, do not acquiesce the tips of the swabs to blow anything.
- Place the acclimated swabs in the aboriginal sample accumulating envelope (do not put aback in artificial packaging) and ensure that you acutely complete and assurance the capacity appropriate on the alfresco of the envelope. Be abiding to allowance the envelope firmly. The two passport-sized photographs of the aboriginal applicant, accustomed on the aback by the doctor, should be stapled to the closed sample accumulating envelope.
- Take the added brace of swabs, which are to be acclimated to aggregate the added applicant’s DNA sample and echo the sample accumulating activity (steps 3–6).
- Place the 2nd brace of acclimated swabs in the added sample accumulating envelope (do not put aback in artificial packaging) and ensure that you acutely complete and assurance the capacity appropriate on the alfresco of the envelope. Be abiding to allowance the envelope firmly. The two passport-sized photographs of the added applicant, accustomed on the aback by the doctor, should be stapled to the closed sample accumulating envelope.
- Repeat the sample accumulating activity if you are requesting assay of added applicants.
- Once all DNA samples accept been collected, the doctor should assurance anniversary accordant area of the allotment forms and complete the Doctor's Appointment area on folio 3. The applicants (or their acknowledged guardian) should assurance anniversary accordant area as able-bodied as their sample accumulating envelope.
- The completed allotment forms and sample accumulating envelopes (with accustomed photographs attached) should be closed in the acknowledgment envelope provided and alternate to us by the doctor.
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