MLPAnalyzer: Data analysis tool for reliable automated normalization of MLPA fragment data

Cellular Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 323-335

  Coffa, Jordy ^a,b   Van De Wiel, Mark A ^a,c   Diosdado, Begoña ^a   Carvalho, Beatriz ^a   Schouten, Jan ^b   Meijer, Gerrit A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MRC HOLLAND   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aCGH; Coffalyzer; Copy number estimation; Gene amplification; MLPA; MLPA analysis; Ratio calculation

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA PROBES; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE DOSAGE; HCT116 CELLS; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 47749143709     PISSN: 15705870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/605109     Document Type: Article

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