Single-Cell RNA Sequencing: Unraveling the Brain One Cell at a Time

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 563-576

  Ofengeim, Dimitry ^a   Giagtzoglou, Nikolaos ^a   Huh, Dann ^a   Zou, Chengyu ^b   Yuan, Junying ^b  

^a BIOGEN   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; TRANSCRIPTOME; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BRAIN CELL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDICS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 85019103985     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: 1471499X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2017.04.006     Document Type: Review

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