A novel L1 retrotransposon marker for HeLa cell line identification

BioTechniques

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 277-284

  Rahbari, Raheleh ^a   Sheahan, Tom ^c   Modes, Vasileios ^b   Collier, Pam ^a   Macfarlane, Catriona ^a   Badge, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cell culture; Contamination; Genotyping; Hela; LINE 1

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA DENATURATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENOTYPE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKER GENE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EQUIPMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GENE FREQUENCY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 67650493110     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000113089     Document Type: Article

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