Direct haplotyping of kilobase-size DNA using carbon nanotube probes

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 760-763

  Woolley, Adam T ^a   Guillemette, Chantal ^b   Cheung, Chin Li ^a   Housman, David E ^b   Lieber, Charles M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Carbon nanotube; DNA sequencing; Haplotype; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DNA FRAGMENT; NANOPARTICLE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; STREPTAVIDIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CANCER RISK; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033927437     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/77760     Document Type: Article

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