Amplification of PCR products in excess of 600 base pairs using DNA extracted from decalcified, paraffin wax embedded bone marrow trephine biopsies

Journal of Clinical Pathology - Molecular Pathology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-23

  Wickham, C L ^a   Boyce, M ^a   Joyner, M V ^a   Sarsfield, P ^a   Wilkins, B S ^c   Jones, D B ^c   Ellard, S ^b  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone marrow trephine; DNA extraction; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; PARAFFIN; XYLENE;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 14; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL ANERGY; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBEDDING; EXTRACTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE PAIRING; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW; DECALCIFICATION TECHNIQUE; DNA; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0002653239     PISSN: 13668714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/mp.53.1.19     Document Type: Article

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