High-resolution characterization of sequence signatures due to non-random cleavage of cell-free DNA

BMC Medical Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chandrananda, Dineika ^a,b   Thorne, Natalie P ^a,b   Bahlo, Melanie ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

apoptosis; biomarkers; Cell free DNA; extracellular DNA; fragment lengths; fragmentation motifs; higher order chromatin packaging; necrosis; nucleosomes

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; DNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL DEATH; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOSOME; OSCILLATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA; DNA CLEAVAGE; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84935857045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17558794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12920-015-0107-z     Document Type: Article

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