Molecular classification of melanomas and nevi using gene expression microarray signatures and formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue

Modern Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 538-546

  Koh, Stephen S ^a   Opel, Michael L ^b   Wei, Jia Perng J ^a   Yau, Kenneth ^b   Shah, Rashmi ^b   Gorre, Mercedes E ^b   Whitman, Eric ^c   Shitabata, Paul K ^d   Tao, Yong ^d   Cochran, Alistair J ^a   Abrishami, Payam ^a   Binder, Scott W ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Combimatrix Molecular Diagnostics ^*  (United States)

^c Mountainside Hospital   (United States)

^d Pathology Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA microarray; Formalin fixed paraffin embedded; Gene expression signature; Melanoma; Molecular classification; Nevus

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELANOMA; MICRODISSECTION; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 63949087383     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2009.8     Document Type: Article

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