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For decades, biologists working with contaminated or misidentified cell lines have wasted time and money and produced spurious results; journals and funding agencies say it's not their job to solve this problem. (Read more.)
Recharacterization of the RGC-5 Retinal Ganglion Cell Line.
N. J. Van Bergen, J. P. M. Wood, G. Chidlow, I. A. Trounce, R. J. Casson, W.-K. Ju, R. N. Weinreb, and J. G. Crowston (2009)
Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci.
50, 4267-4272
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Development of Genomic Reference Materials for Cystic Fibrosis Genetic Testing.
V. M. Pratt, M. Caggana, C. Bridges, A. M. Buller, L. DiAntonio, W. E. Highsmith, L. M. Holtegaard, K. Muralidharan, E. M. Rohlfs, J. Tarleton, et al. (2009)
J. Mol. Diagn.
11, 186-193
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Unexpected Preferential Brain Metastases with a Human Breast Tumor Cell Line MDA-MB-231 in BALB/c Nude Mice.
A. A. El-Mabhouh, P. N. Nation, A. Kaddoura, and J. R. Mercer (2008)
Vet. Pathol.
45, 941-944
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Authenticating Cell Lines in Ophthalmic Research Laboratories.
R. Folberg, S. S. Kadkol, S. Frenkel, K. Valyi-Nagy, M. J. Jager, J. Pe'er, and A. J. Maniotis (2008)
Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci.
49, 4697-4701
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid Profiling Analysis of 40 Human Thyroid Cancer Cell Lines Reveals Cross-Contamination Resulting in Cell Line Redundancy and Misidentification.
R. E. Schweppe, J. P. Klopper, C. Korch, U. Pugazhenthi, M. Benezra, J. A. Knauf, J. A. Fagin, L. A. Marlow, J. A. Copland, R. C. Smallridge, et al. (2008)
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab.
93, 4331-4341
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Analysis of the Mechanisms Mediating Tumor-Specific Changes in Gene Expression in Human Liver Tumors.
L. G. Acevedo, M. Bieda, R. Green, and P. J. Farnham (2008)
Cancer Res.
68, 2641-2651
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SNP panel identification assay (SPIA): a genetic-based assay for the identification of cell lines.
F. Demichelis, H. Greulich, J. A. Macoska, R. Beroukhim, W. R. Sellers, L. Garraway, and M. A. Rubin (2008)
Nucleic Acids Res.
36, 2446-2456
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Mistaken Identity of Widely Used Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Cell Line TE-7.
J. J. Boonstra, A. W. van der Velden, E. C.W. Beerens, R. van Marion, Y. Morita-Fujimura, Y. Matsui, T. Nishihira, C. Tselepis, P. Hainaut, A. W. Lowe, et al. (2007)
Cancer Res.
67, 7996-8001
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