Sensitive Detection of Viral Transcripts in Human Tumor Transcriptomes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Schelhorn, Sven Eric ^a   Fischer, Matthias ^b   Tolosi, Laura ^a   Altmüller, Janine ^c   Nürnberg, Peter ^c   Pfister, Herbert ^b   Lengauer, Thomas ^a   Berthold, Frank ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; TUMORS;

COFACTORS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HUMAN CANCER; HUMAN TUMORS; LARGE VOLUMES; NEUROBLASTOMAS; SENSITIVE DETECTION; TRANSCRIPTOMES; VIRAL TRANSCRIPTS;

VIRUSES;

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANCY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEUROBLASTOMA; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRUSES;

EID: 84886836952     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003228     Document Type: Article

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