Array CGH Used To Examine Human Embryonic Stem Cell Genome

Stem cell researchers from UCLA used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility.The technique used to study the genome, which contains all the genes on 46 chromosomes, is called array CGH.

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Filed under: Stem Cell Research on April 3rd, 2008