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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Annuska Glas
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-16201 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Roepman Paul P Schuurman Arenda A Delahaye Leonie J M J LJ Witteveen Anke T AT Floore Arno N AN Glas Annuska M AM
BMC medical genomics 20090812
<h4>Background</h4>Microarray diagnostics of tumour samples is based on measurement of prognostic and/or predictive gene expression profiles. Typically, diagnostic profiles have been developed using bulk tumour samples with a sufficient amount of tumour cells (usually >50%). Consequentially, a diagnostic results depends on the minimal percentage of tumour cells within a sample. Currently, tumour cell percentage is assessed by conventional histopathological review. However, even for experienced p ...[more]