Comparison of high resolution melting analysis, pyrosequencing, next generation sequencing and immunohistochemistry to conventional Sanger sequencing for the detection of p.V600E and non-p.V600E BRAF mutations.

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Published in BMC Cancer on January 10, 2014

Authors

Michaela Angelika Ihle1, Jana Fassunke, Katharina König, Inga Grünewald, Max Schlaak, Nicole Kreuzberg, Lothar Tietze, Hans-Ulrich Schildhaus, Reinhard Büttner, Sabine Merkelbach-Bruse

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1: Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Medical Centre, Cologne, Germany. michaela.ihle@uk-koeln.de.

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