Effect of high RNA concentrations in real time reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) yields

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1689-1691

  Romera Lopez, Alejandro ^a   Del Prado, Nayade ^a   Fuentes, Manuel ^a   Caldes, Trinidad ^a   Diaz Rubio, Eduardo ^a   Perez Villamil, Beatriz ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Efficiency; N0 (initial quantity of transcript); RNA concentrations; RT qPCR

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CALIBRATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION;

EID: 84867791352     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2011-0962     Document Type: Letter

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