Applications of free circulating nucleic acids in clinical medicine: Recent advances

Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-32

  Giasuddin, A S M ^a   Jhuma, Khadija Akther ^a   Mujibul Haq, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b DHAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FREE CIRCULATING NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

BODY FLUID; CLINICAL MEDICINE; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SERUM;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48049122402     PISSN: 03779238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/bmrcb.v34i1.1168     Document Type: Review

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