Further Reading – Human Cell Line Authentication

ANSI/ATCC ASN-0002-2011 (2012) Authentication of human cell lines: Standardization of STR profiling. ANSI eStandards Store.

Almeida JL, Cole KD, Plant AL (2016) Standards for Cell Line Authentication and Beyond. PLoS Biol 14: e1002476. PMID: 27300367.

Capes-Davis A, Reid YA, Kline MC, Storts DR, Strauss E, Dirks WG, Drexler HG, Macleod RA, Sykes G, Kohara A, Nakamura Y, Elmore E, Nims RW, Alston-Roberts C, Barallon R, Los GV, Nardone RM, Price PJ, Steuer A, Thomson J, Masters JR, Kerrigan L (2013) Match criteria for human cell line authentication: Where do we draw the line? Int J Cancer 132: 2510-9. PMID: 23136038.

Capes-Davis A, Neve RM (2016) Authentication: A Standard Problem or a Problem of Standards? PLoS Biol 14: e1002477. PMID: 27300550.

Dirks WG, MacLeod RA, Nakamura Y, Kohara A, Reid Y, Milch H, Drexler HG, Mizusawa H (2010) Cell line cross-contamination initiative: An interactive reference database of STR profiles covering common cancer cell lines. Int J Cancer 126: 303-4. PMID: 19859913.

Masters JR, Thomson JA, Daly-Burns B, Reid YA, Dirks WG, Packer P, Toji LH, Ohno T, Tanabe H, Arlett CF, Kelland LR, Harrison M, Virmani A, Ward TH, Ayres KL, Debenham PG (2001) Short tandem repeat profiling provides an international reference standard for human cell lines. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98: 8012-7. PMID: 11416159.

Nims RW, Sykes G, Cottrill K, Ikonomi P, Elmore E (2010) Short tandem repeat profiling: Part of an overall strategy for reducing the frequency of cell misidentification. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim 46: 811-9. PMID: 20927602.

Parson W, Kirchebner R, Mühlmann R, Renner K, Kofler A, Schmidt S, Kofler R (2005) Cancer cell line identification by short tandem repeat profiling: Power and limitations. FASEB J 19: 434-6.  PMID: 15637111.

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