Quantitative comparison of microarray experiments with published leukemia related gene expression signatures

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Klein, Hans Ulrich ^a   Ruckert, Christian ^a   Kohlmann, Alexander ^b   Bullinger, Lars ^c   Thiede, Christian ^d   Haferlach, Torsten ^b   Dugas, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MLL MUNICH LEUKEMIA LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATION; GENE EXPRESSION SIGNATURES; INFLUENCING PARAMETERS; MICROARRAY DATASET; MICROARRAY EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULAR MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; ROBUST APPROACHES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; PUBLISHING; QUERY PROCESSING; TAXONOMIES; TESTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER RESEARCH; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 74049126063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-422     Document Type: Article

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