Subtraction of background damage in PFGE experiments on DNA fragment-size distributions

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-160

  Ponomarev, Artem L ^a,b   Belli, Mauro ^c   Hahnfeldt, Philip J ^d   Hlatky, Lynn ^d   Sachs, Rainer K ^e   Cucinotta, Francis A ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b USRA   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BREAKAGE; DNA FRAGMENT SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; PFGE DATA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (PFGE);

ALGORITHMS; DNA; IRON COMPOUNDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION DAMAGE; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ELECTROPHORESIS;

DNA FRAGMENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HISTOGRAM; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RADIATION; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BACKGROUND RADIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34248178265     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-007-0098-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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