Evaluation of Digital PCR for Absolute RNA Quantification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Sanders, Rebecca ^a,b   Mason, Deborah J ^b   Foy, Carole A ^a   Huggett, Jim F ^a  

^a LGC   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE DOSAGE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 1; OSTEOSARCOMA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84884478678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075296     Document Type: Article

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