Desktop transcriptome sequencing from archival tissue to identify clinically relevant translocations

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 796-803

  Sweeney, Robert T ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a   Zhu, Shirley X ^a   Varma, Sushama ^a   Smith, Kevin S ^a   Montgomery, Stephen B ^a   Van De Rijn, Matt ^a   Zehnder, Jim ^a   West, Robert B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival tissue; Biomarker; Cancer; RNA Seq; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA; TISSUE FIXATION;

ALGORITHMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SARCOMA; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84880145392     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31827ad9b2     Document Type: Article

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