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Fol. Biol. 2003, 49, 211-216

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2003049060211

The Use of Housekeeping Genes (HKG) as an Internal Control for the Detection of Gene Expression by Quantitative Real-Time RT-PCR

Veronika Ullmannová, C. Haškovec

Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic

Received August 2003
Accepted October 2003

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