Pitfalls in experimental designs for characterizing the transcriptional, methylational and copy number changes of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes.

BACKGROUND: It is a common practice that researchers collect a set of samples without discriminating the mutants and their wild-type counterparts to characterize the transcriptional, methylational and/or copy number changes of pre-defined candidate oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes (TSGs), althoug...

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Main Authors: Yuannv Zhang, Jiguang Xia, Yujing Zhang, Yao Qin, Da Yang, Lishuang Qi, Wenyuan Zhao, Chenguang Wang, Zheng Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3589351?pdf=render