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- Title
Comparison of frozen and RNALater solid tissue storage methods for use in RNA expression microarrays.
- Authors
Mutter, George L; Zahrieh, David; Liu, Chunmei; Neuberg, Donna; Finkelstein, David; Baker, Heather E; Warrington, Janet A
- Abstract
Primary human tissues are an invaluable widely used tool for discovery of gene expression patterns which characterize disease states. Tissue processing methods remain unstandardized, leading to unanswered concerns of how to best store collected tissues and maintain reproducibility between laboratories. We subdivided uterine myometrial tissue specimens and stored split aliquots using the most common tissue processing methods (fresh, frozen, RNALater) before comparing quantitative RNA expression profiles on the Affymetrix U133 human expression array. Split samples and inclusion of duplicates within each processing group allowed us to undertake a formal genome-wide analysis comparing the magnitude of result variation contributed by sample source (different patients), processing protocol (fresh vs. frozen vs. 24 or 72 hours RNALater), and random background (duplicates). The dataset was randomly permuted to define a baseline pattern of ANOVA test statistic values against which the observed results could be interpreted.
- Publication
BMC genomics, 2004, Vol 5, p88
- ISSN
1471-2164
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2164-5-88