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    J Clin Invest. 2012 Feb 1;122(2):484-6. doi: 10.1172/JCI62002. Epub 2012 Jan 24.

    Genetic instability in neural stem cells: an inconvenient truth?

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    Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. N.J.Harrison@sheffield.ac.uk

    Abstract

    The evolutionary struggles from which mutants arise have been documented in almost every living system. In this issue of the JCI, Varela and colleagues extend this list of systems to include neural derivatives of human embryonic stem cells, which they show exhibit a repeated gain of material from chromosome 1q. Although this raises safety issues for therapeutic use of such cells, the frequent observation of a particular change may direct screening strategies for detection and removal of these unwanted cellular variants.

    PMID:
    22269327
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC3266804
    [Available on 2012/12/31]
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