Normalized microarrays from seven studies (GSE84185, GSE43261, GSE56028, GSE118669, GSE54307, GSE6476, and GSE42940) were retrieved from GEO using GEOquery [160 (link)]. One last microarray was retrieved directly from the authors [50 (link)] and was normalized using RMA from the oligo R package [161 (link)]. The microarrays’ latest annotations were retrieved from Ensembl Biomart for Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Genome 430 2.0, Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse 430A 2.0, Affymetrix Rat Gene 1.0 ST arrays, and Agilent SurePrint G3 Mouse Gene Expression 8 × 60 K microarrays. When unavailable, annotations from the original authors were completed using megablast queries (GSE42940). Probes with mapping to multiple genes were discarded. Differential gene expression analyses were produced with Limma [162 (link)].
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