Advantages of q-PCR as a method of screening for gene targeting in mammalian cells using conventional and whole BAC-based constructs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Gómez rodríguez, Julio ^a   Washington, Valance ^b   Cheng, Jun ^a   Dutra, Amalia ^a   Pak, Evgenia ^a   Liu, Pentao ^c   Mcvicar, Daniel W ^b   Schwartzberg, Pamela L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC G 418; BLASTICIDIN S;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SCREENING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; GENE TARGETING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 54549120496     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn523     Document Type: Article

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