Single-cell transcriptome in the identification of disease biomarkers: Opportunities and challenges

Journal of Translational Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zhu, Zhitu ^a   Wang, Diane C ^b   Popescu, Laurenţiu M ^c   Wang, Xiangdong ^d  

^a JINZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Disease; Heterogeneity; Sequencing; Single cell

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRANSCRIPTOME; GENETIC MARKER;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE COURSE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84908066222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14795876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12967-014-0212-3     Document Type: Article

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