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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
DISEASE(S): lymph node-negative breast cancer
SUBMITTER: Jack Yu
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-3726 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Chowdary Dondapati D Lathrop Jessica J Skelton Joanne J Curtin Kathleen K Briggs Thomas T Zhang Yi Y Yu Jack J Wang Yixin Y Mazumder Abhijit A
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD 20060201 1
Gene expression signatures have the ability to serve in both prognostic and predictive capacities in patient management. The use of RNA as the starting material and the lability of this analyte, however, dictate that tissues must be snap-frozen or stored in a solution that can maintain the integrity of the RNA. We compared pairs of snap-frozen and RNAlater preservative-suspended tissue from 30 such paired lymph node-negative breast tumors and 21 such paired Dukes' B colon tumors. We assessed the ...[more]