Introduction to genetic testing - Applications, advantages and disadvantages

Genetics in the Third Millennium

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 3544-3563

  Hoseini, Seyed Mehdi ^b   Montazeri, Fateme ^b   Foroughmand, Ali Mohamad ^b   Dehghani, Mohamadreza ^b   Ghadimi, Hamid Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Comparative genomic hybridization; Flow cytometry; Fluorescence; Genetic testing; In situ hybridization; Karyotyping; Microarrays; Multiplex polymerase chain reaction; Next generation sequencing; PCR based methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTOGENETICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING;

EID: 84933533010     PISSN: 24237159     EISSN: 24235873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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