A polymerase chain reaction-based assay for the rapid detection of gene amplification in human tumors

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-150

  Waha, Andreas ^a   Rollbrocker, Britta ^a   Wiestler, Otmar D ^a   Von Deimling, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential PCR; DNA sequencer; EGFR; Fluorescence; Gene amplification; Semiquantitation

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE NUMBER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANEUPLOIDY; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DNA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TRISOMY;

EID: 0030013966     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199606000-00010     Document Type: Article

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