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Assessment of a fully automated high-throughput DNA extraction method from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue for KRAS, and BRAF somatic mutation analysis.
Experimental and molecular pathology - 1 Feb 2013
van Eijk Ronald, Stevens Lisa, Morreau Hans, van Wezel Tom
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Preoperative biopsies or imbedded cytological cells will become more and more a primary source of tissue for molecular diagnostic analyses as a result of novel neo-adjuvant treatment regimens for several cancer types. Furthermore there is a growing need to examine metastatic cancer tissue. Hence, nucleic acids need to be reliably isolated and analyzed from small amounts of formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded...
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