Identification of the Mislabeled Breast Cancer Samples by Mitochondrial DNA Haplotyping

• Main Authors: Xiaogang Chen (Author), Di Lu (Author), Ji Zhang (Author), Feng Song (Author), Haibo Luo (Author), Zheng Ren (Author), Wei Wei (Author), Yiping Hou (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The task to identify whether an archival malignant tumor specimen had been mislabeled or interchanged is a challenging one for forensic genetics. The nuclear DNA (nDNA) markers were affected by the aberration of tumor cells, so they were not suitable for personal identification when the tumor tissue...