A method for characterization of total circulating DNA

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1137, Issue , 2008, Pages 92-97

  Van Der Vaart, Maniesh ^a   Pretorius, Piet J ^a,b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cloning; Free circulating DNA; Plasma; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; BETA GLOBIN; PROTEIN P53; RAS PROTEIN;

ALU SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; CLONING VECTOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 52249097227     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1448.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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