Next-generation sequencing of prostate tumors provides independent evidence of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related gammaretrovirus contamination

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 536-537

  Mo, Fan ^a   Wyatt, Alexander W ^a   Wu, Chunxiao ^a   Lapuk, Anna V ^a   Mara, Marco A ^b   Gleave, Martin E ^a   Volik, Stanislav V ^a   Collins, Colin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; GENOMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; METASTASIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOUSE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; SAMPLE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS RELATED GAMMARETROVIRUS;

GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS-RELATED VIRUS;

GAMMARETROVIRUS; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS;

EID: 84862938632     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06170-11     Document Type: Letter

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