Quantifying tumor-infiltrating immune cells from transcriptomics data

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1031-1040

  Finotello, Francesca ^a   Trajanoski, Zlatko ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Gene expression; Next generation sequencing; NGS; RNA seq; TILs

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL FRACTIONATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR ESCAPE; TUMOR INFILTRATING IMMUNE CELL; IMMUNOLOGY;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85043693370     PISSN: 03407004     EISSN: 14320851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-018-2150-z     Document Type: Review

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