Table 1. Diagnostic value comparison between methods cell line DNA analysis.

	Labs (n)	Samples (n)	Analytical failures (n)	Success rate in truenegative (%)	Success rate in true positive (%)
					Dilutions
					All	100%	50%	25%	5%
Direct sequencing	15	1260	4 (3‰)	98.9	76	99	99	87.0	38
Taqman	8	672	11 (1.6%)	99.0	92.3	95.8	100	99.3	76.4
Snapshot	7	588	4 (7‰)	98.8	89.7	95.2	100	93.7	73.8
Pyrosequencing	5	420	6 (14‰)	95	96.6	100	100	100	89.7
HRM and sequencing	5	420	0	100	78.0	100	98.9	88.9	40.0
MASA	1	84	0	100	92.5	100	100	100	72.2
Scorpion	1	84	0	100	100	100	100	100	100
HRM+Taqman	1	84	0	100	100	100	100	100	33.3
PNA° based methods*	1+1	168	0	100	100	100	100	100	100

°PNA Peptide nucleic acid; *PNA was used with taqman probes or with allele specific PCR.