Single-cell RNA sequencing to explore immune cell heterogeneity

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 35-45

  Papalexi, Efthymia ^a,b   Satija, Rahul ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK GENOME CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL ASSAY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENETICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEALTH; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS CYTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE-CELL RNA SEQUENCING;

EID: 85039047649     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2017.76     Document Type: Review

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