3′ IsomiR species and DNA contamination influence reliable quantification of microRNAs by stem-loop quantitative PCR

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Schamberger, Anita ^a   Orbán, Tamás I ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b Chemical Technology Transfer Ltd ^*  (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1226 3P; MICRORNA 21 5P; MICRORNA 33B 5P; MICRORNA 877 3P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA CONTAMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROBE; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEM LOOP REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ECONOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

DNA CONTAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84938622806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106315     Document Type: Article

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