Analytical and statistical methods to evaluate microsatellite allelic imbalance in small amounts of DNA

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 649-657

  Slebos, Robbert J C ^a   Umbach, David M ^b   Sommer, Courtney A ^a   Horner, Geoffrey A ^a   Choi, Jane Y ^a   Taylor, Jack A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic imbalance; Loss of heterozygosity; Microsatellite; Time release PCR; Tissue microdissection

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CANCER CELL; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALLELIC IMBALANCE; ANEUPLOIDY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALLELIC IMBALANCE; ANEUPLOIDY; DNA; DNA, NEOPLASM; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2942628176     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700076     Document Type: Article

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