BEAMing up for detection and quantification of rare sequence variants

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-97

  Li, Meng ^a   Diehl, Frank ^a   Dressman, Devin ^a   Vogelstein, Bert ^a   Kinzler, Kenneth W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WILD TYPE;

DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; EMULSIONS; EXONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPHERES; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OILS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; WATER;

EID: 31744435976     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth850     Document Type: Article

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