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Blood specimen

Known as: Blood Sample, blood samples 
A small volume of blood removed for testing or storage.
National Institutes of Health

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Collection of blood specimen for laboratory procedureVenous blood sampling

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations
Identifying the downstream effects of disease-associated SNPs is challenging. To help overcome this problem, we performed… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Isolation of rare circulating tumour cells in cancer patients by microchip technology
Viable tumour-derived epithelial cells (circulating tumour cells or CTCs) have been identified in peripheral blood from cancer… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Fasting compared with nonfasting triglycerides and risk of cardiovascular events in women.
CONTEXT The association of triglycerides with incident cardiovascular disease remains controversial. Although triglyceride levels… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection poses a serious threat to immunocompromised patients in early life. Transmission of CMV to… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Short Sleep Duration Is Associated with Reduced Leptin, Elevated Ghrelin, and Increased Body Mass Index
Background Sleep duration may be an important regulator of body weight and metabolism. An association between short habitual… Expand
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): study populations and data collection.
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is an ongoing multi-centre prospective cohort study… Expand
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Homeostasis model assessment closely mirrors the glucose clamp technique in the assessment of insulin sensitivity: studies in subjects with various degrees of glucose tolerance and insulin…
OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) is a reliable surrogate measure of in vivo insulin… Expand
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Low grade inflammation and coronary heart disease: prospective study and updated meta-analyses
Abstract Objective: To assess associations between baseline values of four different circulating markers of inflammation and… Expand
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor I and risk of breast cancer
BACKGROUND Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I, a mitogenic and antiapoptotic peptide, can affect the proliferation of breast… Expand
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
A simple salting out procedure for extracting DNA from human nucleated cells.
One of the obstacles encountered when extracting DNA from a large number of samples is the cumbersome method of deprotein-izing… Expand
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