Telomere length varies by DNA extraction method: Implications for epidemiologic research - Letter

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1129-1130

  Hofmann, Jonathan N ^a   Hutchinson, Amy A ^b   Cawthon, Richard ^c   Liu, Chin San ^e   Lynch, Shannon M ^a,d   Lan, Qing ^a   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Stolzenberg Solomon, Rachael ^a   Purdue, Mark P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CHLOROFORM; GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHENOL; DNA;

CANCER RISK; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE DOSAGE; HEMATOLOGY TEST KIT; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QIAAMP DNA BLOOD MIDI KIT; RELIAPREP LARGE VOLUME HT GDNA ISOLATION KIT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; TELOMERE;

DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; TELOMERE;

EID: 84903372750     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0145     Document Type: Letter

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2. Cawthon RM. Telomere length measurement by a novel monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR method. Nucleic Acids Res 2009;37:e21.
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