Single-neuron RNA-Seq: Technical feasibility and reproducibility

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Qiu, Shenfeng ^a,b   Luo, Shujun ^c   Evgrafov, Oleg ^a   Li, Robin ^c   Schroth, Gary P ^c   Levitt, Pat ^a,b   Knowles, James A ^a   Wang, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Electrophysiology; Gene expression; Neuron; RNA Seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872196159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00124     Document Type: Article

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