Methylation-sensitive high-resolution melting

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1903-1908

  Wojdacz, Tomasz K ^a,b   Dobrovic, Alexander ^b   Hansen, Lise Lotte ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA METHYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE COMPOSITION; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 63349097282     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.191     Document Type: Article

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