TeloTool: A new tool for telomere length measurement from terminal restriction fragment analysis with improved probe intensity correction

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Göhring, Janett ^a   Fulcher, Nick ^b   Jacak, Jaroslaw ^c,d   Riha, Karel ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SMEAR; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT ANALYSIS;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; SOFTWARE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84896736225     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1315     Document Type: Article

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