Table 1

Characteristics of the study samples


Experiment 1
Experiment 2
Combined

Ozone
High
Low


Arrays



     Number
90
97
187
     Cancer/Normal/Reference
74/14/2
86/11/0
160/25/2




Patients



     Number
79
90
121
     Cancer/Normal/Both
65/11/3
79/10/1
99/14/8
     Providing ≥2 Cancer Arrays
6
6
47
     Providing ≥2 Normal Arrays
0
0
3
     Providing Normal and Cancer Arrays
4
1
8

Detailing the number of normal and cancer tissue arrays used in the study, the numbers of patients who have provided normal or cancer arrays (or both), and the number of patients that feature on more than one array. Recall that all arrays have the Reference in the Cy5 channel.

Lynch et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:26   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-26