DNA (1.25 μg) samples from normal ear and mammary carcinoma samples were labeled with cyanine 3- and cyanine 5-dUTP, respectively, and purified using columns (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA). Labeled DNA was hybridized with microarray probes (Rat CGH, 2×105K; Agilent) at 65°C with rotation at 20 rpm for 40 h, and then washed with Wash Buffers 1 and 2 (Agilent). The microarray resolution was ~14.5 kb (on average) with 97,973 probes, which were annotated in the rn4 version of assembly. Microarrays were scanned using the Agilent G2565BA microarray scanner. Fluorescence intensity values were obtained from scanned images with Agilent Feature Extraction software (ver. 9.5.1, Agilent) and were analyzed using DNA Analytics software (ver. 4.0.81, Agilent). Rat orthologs of human genes relevant to breast cancer [27 (link)] were identified in the rn4 rat genome assembly using the UCSC Genome Browser (https://genome.ucsc.edu/) [28 (link)]. Annotations pertaining to the role of genes in cancer were retrieved from the Oncogene Database (http://ongene.bioinfo-minzhao.org/), Tumor Suppressor Gene Database (https://bioinfo.uth.edu/TSGene/), and COSMIC Database (https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/census). Microarray data are available at the Gene Expression Omnibus database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/; accession number GSE160514).
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