The polymerase chain reaction: From functional genomics to high-school practical classes

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-42

  Taylor, Graham R ^a   Robinson, P ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031596799     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(98)80081-5     Document Type: Article

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