A Proposal Regarding Best Practices for Validating the Identity of Genetic Stocks and the Effects of Genetic Variants
Author(s) -
Joy Bergelson,
Edward S. Buckler,
Joseph R. Ecker,
Magnus Nordborg,
Detlef Weigel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.15.00502
Subject(s) - biology , identity (music) , genetics , field (mathematics) , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , evolutionary biology , physics , acoustics , mathematics , pure mathematics
Colleagues from the medical field have estimated that up to one-third of cell lines are contaminated with other cell lines or are misidentified; in addition, repeated passaging substantially changes cell line properties (reviewed in [Hughes et al., 2007][1]). The medical community has therefore
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