Internal control for quality assurance of diagnostic RT-PCR

BioTechniques

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 656-659

  Willhauck, Martina ^a   Vogel, Simon ^a   Keilholz, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OCCULT CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031661899     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/98254dt04     Document Type: Article

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