RT-PCR-Based Gene Expression Profiling for Cancer Biomarker Discovery from Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissues

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 724, Issue , 2011, Pages 239-257

  Scott, Aaron ^a   Ambannavar, Ranjana ^a   Jeong, Jennie ^a   Liu, Mei Lan ^a   Cronin, Maureen T ^a  

^a Genomic Health Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Expression profiling; Formalin fixed; Molecular biomarkers; paraffin embedded tissue; Prediction; Prognosis; Quantitative RT PCR

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PARAFFIN; RNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS; TISSUE FIXATION;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TISSUE FIXATION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79958280134     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-055-3_15     Document Type: Chapter

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