A single-molecule method for the quantitation of microRNA gene expression

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-46

  Neely, Lori A ^a   Patel, Sonal ^a   Garver, Joanne ^a   Gallo, Michael ^b   Hackett, Maria ^c   McLaughlin, Stephen ^a   Nadel, Mark ^a   Harris, John ^a   Gullans, Steve ^d   Rooke, Jenny ^a  

^a US Genomics   (United States)

^b Epic Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

^c NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d RxGen Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DNA PROBES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 31344441137     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth825     Document Type: Article

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