Cell line cross-contamination initiative: An interactive reference database of STR profiles covering common cancer cell lines

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 303-304

  Dirks, Wilhelm G ^a   MacLeod, Roderick A F ^a   Nakamura, Yukio ^b   Kohara, Arihiro ^c   Reid, Yvonne ^d   Milch, Herbert ^a   Drexler, Hans G ^a   Mizusawa, Hiroshi ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c JCRB Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources   (Japan)

^d ATCC American Type Culture Collections   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 73449117547     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.24999     Document Type: Letter

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