There are a number of studies which have evaluated different DNA extraction techniques using whole blood samples [13, 14], but they excluded the salting out method and modified salting out from their comparisons. In order to assess the modified salting out protocol described by Nasiri et al. [6], we compared it against a traditional salting out method and against an established kit method to determine which of these available procedures was the best choice to obtain high-quality and high-quantity DNA.