Single-cell mRNA sequencing in cancer research: Integrating the genomic fingerprint

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  Müller, Sören ^a,b   Diaz, Aaron ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer genomics; Cancer phylogenetics; Cancer stem cells; Single cell sequencing; Tumor microenvironment

Indexed keywords

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESEARCH; CELL HETEROGENEITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; METASTASIS; MICROGLIA; OLIGODENDROGLIA; REVIEW; RNA FINGERPRINTING; RNA SEQUENCE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85034017257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2017.00073     Document Type: Review

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