Differentiating human embryonic stem cells express a unique housekeeping gene signature

Stem Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 473-480

  Synnergren, Jane ^a,e   Giesler, Theresa L ^b   Adak, Sudeshna ^c   Tandon, Reeti ^c   Noaksson, Karin ^d   Lindahl, Anders ^e   Nilsson, Patric ^a   Nelson, Deirdre ^f   Olsson, Björn ^a   Englund, Mikael C O ^d   Abbot, Stewart ^f   Sartipy, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d Cellartis AB   (Sweden)

^e SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Housekeeping gene; Human embryonic stem cells; In vitro differentiation; Microarray; Normalization

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; MICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33846928928     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0247     Document Type: Article

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