Sensitive and specific cytokeratin 18 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction that excludes amplification of processed pseudogenes from contaminating genornic DNA

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2244-2250

  Tschentscher, Peter ^a   Wagener, Christoph ^a   Neumaier, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

EID: 0031438894     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/43.12.2244     Document Type: Article

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