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Nanofluidic Digital PCR for KRAS Mutation Detection and Quantification in Gastrointestinal Cancer
Author(s) -
Daniel Azuara,
Mireia M. Ginestà,
Mireia Gausachs,
Francisco RodríguezMoranta,
Joan Fabregat,
Juli Busquets,
Núria Peláez,
Jaume Boadas,
Sara Galter,
Vı́ctor Moreno,
José Costa,
Javier de,
Gabriel Capellá
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2012.186577
Subject(s) - digital polymerase chain reaction , kras , colorectal cancer , allele , pancreatic cancer , mutant , pancreatitis , biology , polymerase chain reaction , cancer , real time polymerase chain reaction , mutation , cancer research , gastroenterology , medicine , pathology , gene , genetics
Concomitant quantification of multiple mutant KRAS (v-Ki-ras2 Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog) alleles may provide information in addition to that provided by standard mutation-detection procedures. We assessed the feasibility of a nanofluidic digital PCR array platform to detect and quantify KRAS mutations simultaneously in clinically relevant samples.

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