Cell line misidentification: The beginning of the end

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 441-448

  Alston Roberts, Christine ^a   Barallon, Rita ^b   Bauer, Steven R ^c   Butler, John ^d   Capes Davis, Amanda ^e   Dirks, Wilhelm G ^f   Elmore, Eugene ^g   Furtado, Manohar ^h   Kerrigan, Liz ^a   Kline, Margaret C ^d   Kohara, Arihiro ⁱ   Los, Georgyi V ^j   Macleod, Roderick A F ^f   Masters, John R W ^k   Nardone, Mark ^l   Nardone, Roland M ^m   Nims, Raymond W ⁿ   Price, Paul J ^o   Reid, Yvonne A ^a   Shewale, Jaiprakash ^p   Steuer, Anton F ^q   Storts, Douglas R ^r   Sykes, Gregory ^a   Taraporewala, Zenobia ^s   Thomson, Jim ^b   more..

^a ATCC   (United States)

^b LGC   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^m CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

ⁿ RMC Pharmaceutical Solutions Inc   (United States)

^o D Finitive Cell Technology   (United States)

^p Life Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^q BioReliance   (United States)

^r PROMEGA CORPORATION   (United States)

^s CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; DATA BASE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; TANDEM REPEAT; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 77952950455     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2852     Document Type: Review

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