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ArticleIn vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal2017

Incorrect strain information for mouse cell lines: sequential influence of misidentification on sublines.

Kozue Uchio-Yamada, Fumio Kasai, Midori Ozawa, Arihiro Kohara

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Article in In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Prevalence and Prevention of Reproducibility Deficiencies in Life Sciences Research: Large-Scale Meta-Analyses.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kozue Uchio-YamadaLaboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, 7-6-8 Saito-Asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0085, Japan.
Fumio KasaiJapanese Collection of Research Bioresources (JCRB) Cell Bank, Laboratory of Cell Cultures, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, 7-6-8 Saito-Asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0085, Japan. k-230@umin.ac.jp.
Midori OzawaJapanese Collection of Research Bioresources (JCRB) Cell Bank, Laboratory of Cell Cultures, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, 7-6-8 Saito-Asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0085, Japan.
Arihiro KoharaJapanese Collection of Research Bioresources (JCRB) Cell Bank, Laboratory of Cell Cultures, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, 7-6-8 Saito-Asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0085, Japan.
National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Misidentification or cross-contamination of cell lines can cause serious issues. Human cell lines have been authenticated by short tandem repeat profiling; however, mouse cell lines have not been adequately assessed. In this study, mouse cell lines registered with the JCRB cell bank were examined by simple sequence length polymorphism (SSLP) analysis to identify their strains. Based on comparisons with 7 major inbred strains, our results revealed their strains in 80 of 90 cell lines. However, 12 of the 80 cell lines (15%) were found to differ from registered information. Of them, 4 cell lines originated from the same mouse, which had been generated through mating between two different inbred strains. The genotype of the mouse sample had not been examined after the backcross, leading to strain misidentification in those cell lines. Although 8 other cell lines had been established as sublines of a BALB/c cell line, their SSLP profiles are similar to a Swiss cell line. This affects differences in genotypes between inbred and outbred strains. Because the use of inbred samples and interbreeding between strains are not involved in human materials, our results suggest that the cause and influence of misidentification in mouse cell lines are different from those in human.

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GenotypeAnimalsCell LineHumansMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMicrosatellite RepeatsCell cultureCell line profileSimple sequence length polymorphism (SSLP)Strain identification

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PMCPMC5348555
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