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Development and evaluation of new mask protocols for gene expression profiling in humans and chimpanzees

Donna M Toleno1 email, Gabriel Renaud2 email, Tyra G Wolfsberg2 email, Munirul Islam3 email, Derek E Wildman3 email, Kimberly D Siegmund4 email and Joseph G Hacia1 email

1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

2National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

3Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA

4Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:77doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-77

Published: 5 March 2009

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Additional file 1:

Effects of probe number on the variation of gene expression scores. The relationships between probe number and the interquartile ranges of human gene expression scores are provided.

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Effects of probe number on the variation of gene expression scores. The relationships between probe number and the interquartile ranges of chimpanzee gene expression scores are provided.

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Rates of evolution for U133Plus2 microarray probe sets based on their corresponding single RefSeq ID. The rates of evolution for U133Plus2 microarray probe sets based on their corresponding single RefSeq ID are provided.

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Relationships between numbers of probes remaining after masking and rates of evolution. The relationships between the number of 1H_1C probes in a probe set and the rates of evolution of corresponding RefSeqs are provided.

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Comparative analysis of inferred differential expression based on masked and unmasked data sets. Venn diagrams summarizing the relationships of probe sets showing differential expression based on masked and unmasked data sets.

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Instructions for the application of masks for the analysis of human and chimpanzee gene expression data obtained from Affymetrix U133Plus2 microarrays. We provide instructions for the application of masks for the analysis of human and chimpanzee data obtained from Affymetrix U133Plus2 gene expression microarrays.

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Master mask file. This is the master mask file that can be applied for cross-species gene expression analyses according to the instructions provided in Additional File 6.

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