Quantitative analysis of chromosome conformation capture assays (3c-qpcr)

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1722-1733

  Hagege, Helene ^a   Klous, Petra ^b   Braem, Caroline ^a   Splinter, Erik ^b   Dekker, Job ^c   Cathala, Guy ^a   De Laat, Wouter ^b   Forne, Thierry ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; DNA PRIMERS; FORMALDEHYDE; GENES; MAMMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 34548565667     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.243     Document Type: Article

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