Validation of chimerism in pediatric recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) a comparison between two methods: Real-time PCR (qPCR) vs. variable number tandem repeats PCR (VNTR PCR)

Chimerism

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Kletzel, Morris ^a,b   Huang, Wei ^a   Olszewski, Marie ^a   Khan, Sana ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimerism; HSCT; PCR; QPCR; Real time PCR; Variable number tandem repeats; VNTR

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; APO B GENE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CHILD; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; INDEL MUTATION; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SRY GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ZP3 GENE;

CHIMERISM; HSCT; PCR; QPCR; REAL-TIME PCR; VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEATS; VNTR;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENETIC MARKERS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872057068     PISSN: 19381956     EISSN: 19381964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/chim.23158     Document Type: Article

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