Shedding light on health and disease using molecular beacons

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 372-384

  Tsourkas, Andrew ^a   Bao, Gang ^a  

^a Emory University   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele discrimination; Disease states; Gene detection; Molecular beacons; PCR; Structure function relationship

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 1842479326     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/1.4.372     Document Type: Article

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