When DNA gets in the way: A cautionary note for DNA contamination in extracellular RNA-seq studies

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Aug 11;117(32):18934-18936. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2001675117.

Authors

Jasper Verwilt^{1

2}, Wim Trypsteen^{3

2}, Ruben Van Paemel^{3

2}, Katleen De Preter^{3

2}, Maria D Giraldez^{4

5}, Pieter Mestdagh^{3

2}, Jo Vandesompele^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Jasper.verwilt@ugent.be.
² OncoRNALab, Cancer Research Institute Ghent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
³ Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
⁴ Digestive Diseases Unit, Virgen del Rocio University Hospital, 41013 Seville, Spain.
⁵ OncoDigest Group, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), 41013 Seville, Spain.

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

DNA
DNA Contamination*
Exome Sequencing
Humans
RNA*
RNA-Seq

Substances

RNA
DNA