Quantitative analysis of intra-chromosomal contacts: The 3C-qPCR method

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1589, Issue , 2017, Pages 75-88

  Ea, Vuthy ^a   Court, Franck ^a,b,c   Forné, Thierry ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin dynamics and organization; Chromosome conformation capture; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; PROCEDURES;

CHROMATIN; PRIMER DNA;

CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 85013078220     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7651_2015_269     Document Type: Chapter

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