Can we use post-mortem peripheral blood for disease related gene expression analysis study?

04 September 2017 1 7K Report

we planned to study about metallothionein gene expression study using RT -PCR . Is it Ok to use post mortem blood sample for gene expression analysis?

Ahmed AbdulJabbar Suleiman

Yes you can use it

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