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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

The Effect of Genomic DNA Contamination on the Detection of Circulating Long Non-Coding RNAs: The Paradigm of

Athina N Markou, Stavroula Smilkou, Emilia Tsaroucha, Evi Lianidou

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 50% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Athina N MarkouAnalysis of Circulating Tumor Cells Lab, Lab of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7760-9701
Stavroula SmilkouAnalysis of Circulating Tumor Cells Lab, Lab of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15771 Athens, Greece.
Emilia Tsaroucha8th Department of Pulmonary Diseases, 'Sotiria' General Hospital for Chest Diseases, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Evi LianidouAnalysis of Circulating Tumor Cells Lab, Lab of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7796-5914
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRSotiria General Hospital · GR

Funding

Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation 1964
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The presence of contaminating gDNA in RNA preparations is a frequent cause of false positives in RT-PCR-based analysis. However, in some cases, this cannot be avoided, especially when there are no exons-intron junctions in the lncRNA sequences. Due to the lack of exons in few of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and the lack of DNAse treatment step in most studies reported so far, serious questions are raised about the specificity of lncRNA detection and the potential of reporting false-positive results. We hypothesized that minute amounts of gDNA usually co-extracted with RNA could give false-positive signals since primers would specifically bind to gDNA due to the lack of junction. In the current study, we evaluated the effect of gDNA and other forms of DNA like extrachromosomal circular DNAs (eccDNAs) contamination and the importance of including a DNAse treatment step on lncRNAsexpression.As a model, we have chosen as one of the most widely studied lncRNAs in cancer namely

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cfRNADNAse treatmentfalse positive resultsgDNAMALAT1non-long coding RNAtumor biomarkers

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PMID34202021
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