Inferring expressed genes by whole-genome sequencing of plasma DNA

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1273-1278

  Ulz, Peter ^a   Thallinger, Gerhard G ^b,c   Auer, Martina ^a   Graf, Ricarda ^a   Kashofer, Karl ^a   Jahn, Stephan W ^a   Abete, Luca ^a   Pristauz, Gunda ^a   Petru, Edgar ^a   Geigl, Jochen B ^a   Heitzer, Ellen ^a   Speicher, Michael R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; NUCLEOSOME;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CHROMOSOME 8P; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; NUCLEOSOME; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; SILENT GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TUMOR GENE; BLOOD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; NEOPLASM;

DNA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEOSOMES; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84984616776     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3648     Document Type: Article

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