Genomic DNA is often co-extracted with RNA and can serve as a template in downstream processes such as PCR. However, if your TaqMan® MGB probe spans an exon-exon junction, genomic DNA can be excluded as a template in a real-time PCR reaction.
In contrast, if both primers are designed within one exon, then genomic DNA could serve as a template for PCR amplification. In these cases, the user has to decide if the genomic DNA is sufficiently negligible.
RT reactions without reverse transcriptase (No RT controls) can be used to evaluate levels of genomic DNA in a RNA preparation. A No RT control is a reaction that has been prepared for reverse transcription (including RNA, dNTPs, buffer and so on) but no reverse transcriptase is added. One can estimate the amount of amplification in their samples that is attributable to genomic DNA templates by running No RT controls. For example, if a No RT control sample has a CT value 10 cycles higher than an RT test sample, then the No RT control sample started out with approximately 1000-fold less target sequence (assuming 100% efficiency, 1 CT ≈ 2-fold difference in initial template amount). Since the target template in this No RT control would exclusively be genomic DNA, one may conclude that 0.1% (1:1,000) of the amplification in the RT sample is attributable to the genomic DNA template. You will then have to determine if the PCR amplification attributable to the genomic DNA is sufficiently negligible compared to the amplification of the cDNA sequence.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26545322
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