EVALUATION OF RNA QUALITY FROM FORMALIN FIXED AND PARAFFIN EMBEDDED SAMPLES:APPLICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS

RNA molecules isolated from FFPE samples are highly fragmented and modified, and generally deemed unsuitable for downstream gene expression profiling. With the development of molecular biology, there has been growing interest in profiling archival FFPE samples. Successful profiling of transcripts fr...

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Main Author: Zhang, XIAO
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Format: Others
Language:en
en
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1740