Quantitative analysis of gene expression in a single cell by qPCR.

Taniguchi, Kiyomi; Kajiyama, Tomoharu; Kambara, Hideki · Nat Methods · 2009

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We developed a quantitative PCR method featuring a reusable single-cell cDNA library immobilized on beads for measuring the expression of multiple genes in a single cell. We used this method to analyze multiple cDNA targets (from several copies to several hundred thousand copies) with an experimental error of 15.9% or less. This method is sufficiently accurate to investigate the heterogeneity of single cells.

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