A novel and rapid method of determining the effect of unclassified MLH1 genetic variants on differential allelic expression

Journal of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 757-764

  Perera, Sheron ^a,b   Li, Brian ^a,b   Tsitsikotas, Soultana ^b   Ramyar, Lily ^b   Pollett, Aaron ^a,b   Semotiuk, Kara ^b   Bapat, Bharati ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN MLH1; RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA EXTRACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 78049372048     PISSN: 15251578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2353/jmoldx.2010.090240     Document Type: Article

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