Toward reliable biomarker signatures in the age of liquid biopsies - How to standardize the small RNA-Seq workflow

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 5995-6018

  Buschmann, Dominik ^a,b   Haberberger, Anna ^a   Kirchner, Benedikt ^a   Spornraft, Melanie ^a   Riedmaier, Irmgard ^a,c   Schelling, Gustav ^b   Pfaffl, Michael W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; MICRORNA; RNA;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL CULTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DNA BARCODING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION ASSAY; HUMAN; LIQUID BIOPSY; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SAMPLING BIAS; STORAGE; BIOLOGY; BIOPSY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOMARKERS; BIOPSY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR;

EID: 84982854133     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw545     Document Type: Review

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