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Can subtle changes in gene expression be consistently detected with different microarray platforms?

Paola Pedotti1 email, Peter AC 't Hoen1 email, Erno Vreugdenhil3 email, Geert J Schenk3 email, Rolf HAM Vossen2 email, Yavuz Ariyurek2 email, Mattias de Hollander1,4 email, Rowan Kuiper1,4 email, Gertjan JB van Ommen1 email, Johan T den Dunnen1,2 email, Judith M Boer1 email and Renée X de Menezes1,5 email

1Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

2Leiden Genome Technology Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

3Division of Medical Pharmacology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden, The Netherlands

4Department of Technology, Study Programme Bioinformatics, Hogeschool Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

5Pediatric Oncology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:124doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-124

Published: 10 March 2008

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Additional file 1:

suppl.material.pedotti. contains a more detailed comparison of the performance of AGL and AFF microarrays.

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Additional file 2:

table.S1.pedotti. contains a list of the genes selected for the validation with qRT-PCR and its results.

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table.S2.pedotti. contains the hybridization design for the two color arrays (AGL and LGTC).

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Additional file 4:

all.data.UG. contains the expression data of all the 5 platforms for the subset of genes with overlapping UG identifiers.

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