A Novel Approach to High-Quality Postmortem Tissue Procurement: The GTEx Project

Biopreservation and Biobanking

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 311-317

  Carithers, Latarsha J ^a   Ardlie, Kristin ^b   Barcus, Mary ^c   Branton, Philip A ^a   Britton, Angela ^c   Buia, Stephen A ^c   Compton, Carolyn C ^a   Deluca, David S ^b   Peter Demchok, Joanne ^a   Gelfand, Ellen T ^b   Guan, Ping ^a   Korzeniewski, Greg E ^c   Lockhart, Nicole C ^a   Rabiner, Chana A ^a   Rao, Abhi K ^a   Robinson, Karna L ^c   Roche, Nancy V ^c   Sawyer, Sherilyn J ^a   Segrè, Ayellet V ^b   Shive, Charles E ^c   Smith, Anna M ^c   Sobin, Leslie H ^c   Undale, Anita H ^c   Valentino, Kimberly M ^c   Vaught, Jim ^a   Young, Taylor R ^b   Moore, Helen M ^a   Barker, Laura ^d   Basile, Margaret ^d   Battle, Alexis ^d   Boyer, Joy ^d   Bradbury, Debra ^d   Bridge, Jason P ^d   Brown, Amanda ^d   Burges, Robin ^d   Choi, Christopher ^d   Colantuoni, Deborah ^d   Cox, Nancy ^d   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^d   Derr, Leslie K ^d   Dinsmore, Michael J ^d   Erickson, Kenyon ^d   Fleming, Johnelle ^d   Flutre, Timothée ^d   Foster, Barbara A ^d   Gamazon, Eric R ^d   Getz, Gad ^d   Gillard, Bryan M ^d   Guigó, Roderic ^d   Hambright, Kenneth W ^d   Hariharan, Pushpa ^d   Hasz, Rick ^d   Im, Hae K ^d   Jewell, Scott ^d   Karasik, Ellen ^d   Kellis, Manolis ^d   Kheradpour, Pouya ^d   Koester, Susan ^d   Koller, Daphne ^d   Konkashbaev, Anuar ^d   Lappalainen, Tuuli ^d   Little, Roger ^d   Liu, Jun ^d   Lo, Edmund ^d   Lonsdale, John T ^d   Lu, Chunrong ^d   MacArthur, Daniel G ^d   Magazine, Harold ^d   Maller, Julian B ^d   Marcus, Yvonne ^d   Mash, Deborah C ^d   McCarthy, Mark I ^d   McLean, Jeffrey ^d   Mestichelli, Bernadette ^d   Miklos, Mark ^d   Monlong, Jean ^d   Mosavel, Magboeba ^d   Moser, Michael T ^d   Mostafavi, Sara ^d   Nicolae, Dan L ^d   Pritchard, Jonathan ^d   Qi, Liqun ^d   Ramsey, Kimberly ^d   Rivas, Manuel A ^d   Robles, Barnaby E ^d   Rohrer, Daniel C ^d   Salvatore, Mike ^d   Sammeth, Michael ^d   Seleski, John ^d   Shad, Saboor ^d   Siminoff, Laura A ^d   Stephens, Matthew ^d   Struewing, Jeff ^d   Sullivan, Timothy ^d   Sullivan, Susan ^d   Syron, John ^d   Tabor, David ^d   Taherian, Mehran ^d   Tejada, Jorge ^d   Temple, Gary F ^d   Thomas, Jeffrey A ^d   Thomson, Alexander W ^d   Tidwell, Denee ^d   Traino, Heather M ^d   Tu, Zhidong ^d   Valley, Dana R ^d   Volpi, Simona ^d   Walters, Gary D ^d   Ward, Lucas D ^d   Wen, Xiaoquan ^d   Winckler, Wendy ^d   Wu, Shenpei ^d   Zhu, Jun ^d   Abdallah, Assya ^d   Addington, Anjene ^d   Anderson, James M ^d   Bender, Patrick K ^d   Cosentino, Mark ^d   Diaz Mayoral, Norma ^d   Engel, Theresa ^d   Garci, Fernando ^d   Green, Allen ^d   Hammond, Tiffanie ^d   Jaffe, Katherine ^d   Keen, Judy ^d   Kennedy, Mary ^d   Kigonya, Peter ^d   Lander, Brent ^d   Nampally, Sreenath ^d   Ny, Cathy ^d   Robb, James ^d   Santhanum, Vikram ^d   Sharopova, Nataliya ^d   Singh, Shilpi ^d   Soria, Conrado ^d   Sturcke, Anne ^d   Sukari, Surendra ^d   Thomson, Elizabeth J ^d   Tomaszewski, Magda ^d   Trowbridge, Casandra ^d   Udoye, Ferdinand ^d   Vanscoy, David ^d   Vatanian, Negin ^d   Wilder, Elizabeth L ^d   Williams, Penelope ^d   more..

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD FLOW; CELL LINE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENTIALITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; RNA SEQUENCE; TARGET ORGAN; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE SECTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE BANKS;

EID: 84945292900     PISSN: 19475535     EISSN: 19475543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bio.2015.0032     Document Type: Article

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