Array-based comparative genomic hybridization from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded breast tumors.
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Journal Article
Identification of prognostic and predictive genomic markers requires long-term clinical follow-up of patients. Extraction of high-quality DNA from archived formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded material is essential for such studies. Of particular importance is a robust reproducible method of whole genome amplification for small tissue samples. This is especially true for high-resolution analytical approaches because different genomic regions and sequences may amplify differentially. We have tested a number of protocols for DNA amplification for array-based comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), in which relative copy number of the entire genome is measured at 1 to 2 mb resolution. Both random-primed amplification and degenerate oligonucleotide-primed amplification approaches were tested using varying amounts of fresh and paraffin-extracted normal and breast tumor input DNAs. We found that random-primed amplification was clearly superior to degenerate oligonucleotide-primed amplification for array-based CGH. The best quality and reproducibility strongly depended on accurate determination of the amount of input DNA using a quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based method. Reproducible and high-quality results were attained using 50 ng of input DNA, and some samples yielded quality results with as little as 5 ng input DNA. We conclude that random-primed amplification of DNA isolated from paraffin sections is a robust and reproducible approach for array-based CGH analysis of archival tumor samples.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Devries, S; Nyante, S; Korkola, J; Segraves, R; Nakao, K; Moore, D; Bae, H; Wilhelm, M; Hwang, S; Waldman, F
Published Date
- February 2005
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 7 / 1
Start / End Page
- 65 - 71
PubMed ID
- 15681476
Pubmed Central ID
- 15681476
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1525-1578
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/S1525-1578(10)60010-4
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States