細胞 の ない DNA は,その 起源 の 組織 に 情報 を 伝える 活体 中 の 核 細胞 足跡 を 含ん で いる

Matthew W Snyder1, Martin Kircher1, Andrew J Hill1

  • 1Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Cell
|January 16, 2016
PubMed
まとめ

細胞フリーDNA (cfDNA) の核細胞足跡は,細胞の起源を明らかにする. この方法は血から全ゲノムにわたる核細胞の占有率をマッピングし,非侵襲的な疾患モニタリングに役立ちます.

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