Multiplexed locus-specific analysis of DNA methylation in single cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 619-631

  Cheow, Lih Feng ^a   Quake, Stephen R ^a,b   Burkholder, William F ^a   Messerschmidt, Daniel M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; CYTOLYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BLASTOMA; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; GENOME IMPRINTING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAB ON A CHIP; MOUSE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; OOCYTES; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84925856871     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.041     Document Type: Article

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