Total RNA was extracted from 25 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks using the High Pure RNA Extraction Kit (Roche Applied Science) and subjected to gene expression profiling (GEP) as has been described [20 (link)]. For data analysis and classification, we used the DQN algorithm, which is the noncentral trimmed mean of differences between perfect match and mismatch intensities with quantile normalization [21 (link)]. DQN was normalized with beta distribution and a Bayesian model was used to determine the classification probability.
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