The MIQE guidelines: Minimum information for publication of quantitative real-time PCR experiments

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 611-622

  Bustin, Stephen A ^a,n   Benes, Vladimir ^b   Garson, Jeremy A ^c,d   Hellemans, Jan ^e   Huggett, Jim ^c   Kubista, Mikael ^f,g   Mueller, Reinhold ^h   Nolan, Tania ⁱ   Pfaffl, Michael W ^j   Shipley, Gregory L ^k   Vandesompele, Jo ^e   Wittwer, Carl T ^l,m  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EMBL Heidelberg   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f TATAA Biocenter   (Sweden)

^g INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^h SEQUENOM INC   (United States)

ⁱ Sigma Aldrich   (United Kingdom)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLISHING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; STANDARD; TIME;

NUCLEIC ACID;

HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLISHING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64149097786     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2008.112797     Document Type: Article

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