An efficient method for identifying gene fusions by targeted RNA sequencing from fresh frozen and FFPE samples

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Scolnick, Jonathan A ^a   Dimon, Michelle ^a,b   Wang, I Ching ^a   Huelga, Stephanie C ^a   Amorese, Douglas A ^a  

^a NuGEN Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FORMALIN FIXED PARAFFIN EMBEDDED; FROZEN SECTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTION; BREAST TUMOR; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; GENE FUSION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ONCOGENE FUSION; RNA;

EID: 84938942340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128916     Document Type: Article

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