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Molecular Strategy for Detecting Metastatic Cancers with Use of Multiple Tumor-specific MAGE-A Genes
1 Mar 2001
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BACKGROUND: The human melanoma-associated antigen family A (MAGE-A) has high specificity and expression in various malignancies, but individual family members are expressed at low frequency in any one particular type of cancer. We therefore developed a method to detect mRNAs from multiple MAGE-A genes in a single reaction. METHODS: Universal MAGE-A (uMAGE-A) primers and probe were designed to reverse-transcribe,...
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