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From: Redefinition of Affymetrix probe sets by sequence overlap with cDNA microarray probes reduces cross-platform inconsistencies in cancer-associated gene expression measurements

Figure 7

Increased efficiency of breast cancer subtype classification transfer from cDNA microarray to Affymetrix HG-U95Av2 gene-chip tumor-profiles by sequence-overlapping probe measurements. Tumor samples profiled on the Affymetrix platform were classified according to their correlation with the set of subtype median-centroids derived from cDNA microarray measurements (see methods). The classified samples were then hierarchically clustered using Pearson correlation and average-linkage agglomeration. (A), Affymetrix measurements matched to the cDNA centroids by Unigene identifier. (B), Affymetrix measurements matched to cDNA centroids by sequence-overlap of probe features produced more coherent classifications. In particular, the large ERbB2+ subtype cluster (upper left) is mostly absent from the unigene-based classification. The significance of this cluster is supported by the observation that all tumors in this cluster for which Her-2 amplification was assessed by immunohistochemistry were designated positive.

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