Telomere length analysis and preterm infant health: The importance of assay design in the search for novel biomarkers

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 485-498

  Turner, Kara J ^a   Vasu, Vimal ^a,b   Greenall, John ^b   Griffin, Darren K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b WILLIAM HARVEY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomarker; neonatal; preterm; quantitative FISH; quantitative real time PCR; single telomere length analysis; slot blot analysis; telomere length; telomere restriction fragment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLOW CYTOMETRY FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MORBIDITY; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURITY; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE TELOMERE LENGTH ANALYSIS; SLOT BLOT ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE LENGTH ANALYSIS; TELOMERE RESTRICTION FRAGMENT ANALYSIS; UNIVERSAL SINGLE TELOMERE LENGTH ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE;

EID: 84899849979     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: 17520371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/bmm.14.13     Document Type: Review

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