Transcriptional profiling of formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue: Pitfalls and recommendations for identifying biologically relevant changes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Rentoft, Matilda ^a   Coates, Philip John ^b   Laurell, Göran ^c   Nylander, Karin ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORMALIN FIXED PARAFFIN EMBEDDED TISSUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE CXCL10; ONCOGENE SH3BGL2; ONCOGENE SLC16A3; ONCOGENE SLC2A6; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA DEGRADATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859809940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035276     Document Type: Article

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