Accurate and Precise DNA Quantification in the Presence of Different Amplification Efficiencies Using an Improved Cy0 Method

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Guescini, Michele ^a   Sisti, Davide ^a   Rocchi, Marco B L ^a   Panebianco, Renato ^a   Tibollo, Pasquale ^a   Stocchi, Vilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84879984103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068481     Document Type: Article

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