Measurement of telomere length: A new assay using QuantiGene chemistry on a luminex platform

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2667-2672

  Kibriya, Muhammad G ^a   Jasmine, Farzana ^a   Roy, Shantanu ^a   Ahsan, Habibul ^a   Pierce, Brandon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE PROBE; HUMAN; LUMINEX PLATFORM; MULTIPLEXED PROBE BASED NON POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTIGENE PLEX CHEMISTRY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; BIOASSAY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA; HUMANS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84919397050     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0610     Document Type: Article

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