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Embryonic stem cells and somatic cells differ in mutation frequency and type.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Mar 2002
Cervantes Rachel B, Stringer James R, Shao Changshun, Tischfield Jay A, Stambrook Peter J
Abstract excerpt
Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells have been used to produce genetically modified mice as experimental models of human genetic diseases. Increasingly, human ES cells are being considered for their potential in the treatment of injury and disease. Here we have shown that mutation in murine ES cells, heterozygous at the selectable Aprt locus, differs from that in embryonic somatic cells. The mutation frequency...
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