Robust gene expression and mutation analyses of RNA-sequencing of formalin-fixed diagnostic tumor samples

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Graw, Stefan ^a,d   Meier, Richard ^a,d   Minn, Kay ^a   Bloomer, Clark ^b   Godwin, Andrew K ^a   Fridley, Brooke ^a   Vlad, Anda ^c   Beyerlein, Peter ^d   Chien, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; RNA;

CHEMISTRY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TUMOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, NEOPLASM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 84937826667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12335     Document Type: Article

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