Single-cell gene-expression profiling and its potential diagnostic applications

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 735-740

  Ståhlberg, Anders ^a,b   Kubista, Mikael ^b,c   Åman, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b TATAA Biocenter   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

gene expression profiling; RT qPCR; single cell biology; single cell diagnostics; single cell gene expression profiling

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL TYPE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052720953     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: 17448352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erm.11.60     Document Type: Review

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