Project description:The use of Affymetrix U133 2.0 Plus chips on FFPE samples when coupled with a qPCR-based sample pre-assessment step, yielded satisfactory results from the point of view of biological reliability. When compared with the Illumina DASL WG platform, specifically designed for degraded RNA, the data generated with the Affymetrix platform showed a wider interquartile range (1.32 vs 0.57, p<2.2x10-16) suggesting a superior discriminatory power within samples as indicated by the good agreement with the immunohistiochemically derived ER status. FFPE primary breast cancer samples profiled using Illumina DASL WG platform after RNA amplification with the Nugen WT-Ovation FFPE System
Project description:Defining molecular features that can predict the response to chemotherapy for stage II-III colorectal cancer (CRC) patients remains challenging in cancer research. Most available clinical samples are Formalin-Fixed and Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE). Affymetrix GeneChip® Human Transcriptome Array 2.0 (HTA) is one platform marketed for high-throughput gene expression profiling for FFPE tissue samples. In this study, we analyzed the whole transcriptom gene expression of 156 CRC patient samples measured by this platform to identify biomarkers predicting the response to chemotherapy for stage II-III CRC patients.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells with hTERT/E6/E7 transfected MSCs. hTERT may change gene expression in MSCs. Goal was to determine the gene expressions of immortalized MSCs.
Project description:Defining molecular features that can predict the recurrence of colorectal cancer (CRC) for stage II-III patients remains challenging in cancer research. Most available clinical samples are Formalin-Fixed and Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE). NanoString nCounter® and Affymetrix GeneChip® Human Transcriptome Array 2.0 (HTA) are the two platforms marketed for high-throughput gene expression profiling for FFPE tissue samples. In this study, to identify an optimal platform for the gene expression profiling of FFPE CRC samples, we evaluated the expression of 516 genes from published frozen tissue-derived prognostic signatures in 42 CRC patient samples measured by these two platforms. Based on HTA platform-derived data, we identified both gene (99 individual genes, FDR < 0.05) and gene set (four of the six reported multi-gene signatures with sufficient information for evaluation, P < 0.05) expression differences associated with survival outcomes. Using nCounter platform-derived data, only one of the six multi-gene signatures (P < 0.05) but no individual gene was associated with survival outcomes. Therefore, the HTA appears to provide a more robust gene expression dataset using genes from published gene signatures. Our study indicated that sufficiently high quality RNA could be obtained from FFPE tumor tissues to detect frozen tissue-derived prognostic gene expression signatures for CRC patients.