此细胞株来源于一位58岁女性鼻咽癌患者。Problematic cell line: Contaminated. On the basis of the STR profile (PubMed=18196576) it is identical to CNE-2 and seems to be a hybrid of Hela and of cell line of unknow origin. This is also confirmed by RNASeq data from PubMed=24991015. Originally thought to originate from a 58 year old female patient with a nasopharyngeal carcinoma.