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Research Report

Validation of housekeeping genes for normalizing RNA expression in real-time PCR

Keertan Dheda1 Royal Free Medical School, London
,
Jim F. Huggett1 Royal Free Medical School, LondonCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Stephen A. Bustin2 Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
,
Margaret A. Johnson1 Royal Free Medical School, London
,
Graham Rook1 Royal Free Medical School, London
&
Alimuddin Zumla1 Royal Free Medical School, London
Pages 112-119 | Received 30 Jan 2004, Accepted 19 Mar 2004, Published online: 06 Jun 2018

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