Title |
High quality copy number and genotype data from FFPE samples using Molecular Inversion Probe (MIP) microarrays
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Published in |
BMC Medical Genomics, February 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1755-8794-2-8 |
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Authors |
Yuker Wang, Victoria EH Carlton, George Karlin-Neumann, Ronald Sapolsky, Li Zhang, Martin Moorhead, Zhigang C Wang, Andrea L Richardson, Robert Warren, Axel Walther, Melissa Bondy, Aysegul Sahin, Ralf Krahe, Musaffe Tuna, Patricia A Thompson, Paul T Spellman, Joe W Gray, Gordon B Mills, Malek Faham |
Abstract |
A major challenge facing DNA copy number (CN) studies of tumors is that most banked samples with extensive clinical follow-up information are Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE). DNA from FFPE samples generally underperforms or suffers high failure rates compared to fresh frozen samples because of DNA degradation and cross-linking during FFPE fixation and processing. As FFPE protocols may vary widely between labs and samples may be stored for decades at room temperature, an ideal FFPE CN technology should work on diverse sample sets. Molecular Inversion Probe (MIP) technology has been applied successfully to obtain high quality CN and genotype data from cell line and frozen tumor DNA. Since the MIP probes require only a small (approximately 40 bp) target binding site, we reasoned they may be well suited to assess degraded FFPE DNA. We assessed CN with a MIP panel of 50,000 markers in 93 FFPE tumor samples from 7 diverse collections. For 38 FFPE samples from three collections we were also able to asses CN in matched fresh frozen tumor tissue. |
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