A quantitative real-time PCR method for absolute telomere length

BioTechniques

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 807-809

  O'Callaghan, Nathan J ^a   Dhillon, Varinderpal S ^a   Thomas, Philip ^a   Fenech, Michael ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE LENGTH; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT;

REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TELOMERE;

EID: 45249110498     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112761     Document Type: Article

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