Impact of blood collection and processing on peripheral blood gene expression profiling in type 1 diabetes

Abstract Background The natural history of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is challenging to investigate, especially as pre-diabetic individuals are difficult to identify. Numerous T1D consortia have been established to collect whole blood for gene expression analysis from individuals with or at risk to devel...

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Main Authors: Linda Yip, Rebecca Fuhlbrigge, Mark A. Atkinson, C. Garrison Fathman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-3949-2