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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Lyle Moldawer
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-1343 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Physiological genomics 20041101 3
The analysis of gene expression data in clinical medicine has been plagued by the lack of a critical evaluation of accepted methodologies for the collection, processing, and labeling of RNA. In the present report, the reliability of two commonly used techniques to isolate RNA from whole blood or its leukocyte compartment was compared by examining their reproducibility, variance, and signal-to-noise ratios. Whole blood was obtained from healthy subjects and was either untreated or stimulated ex v ...[more]