Cross-platform analysis of global microRNA expression technologies

BMC Genomics

Table 3 MiRNA array correlations with TaqMan arrays.

	One or two-color analysis	Number of miRNAs considered	Correlation	Standard Error	95% Confidence intervals
Agilent	One	122	0.692	0.0633	0.553-0.799
		54	0.653	0.1073	0.414-0.831
LC Science	One	131	0.680	0.0590	0.548-0.782
		54	0.506	0.1215	0.241-0.762
Exiqon	Two	131	0.700	0.0569	0.575-0.799
		54	0.656	0.1079	0.412-0.835
	One	125	0.700	0.0598	0.567-0.804
		54	0.691	0.1009	0.467-0.855
Invitrogen NCode	Two	118	0.642	0.0567	0.517-0.737
		54	0.775	0.0850	0.575-0.907
	One	124	0.659	0.0573	0.533-0.759
		54	0.730	0.0896	0.521-0.873

Spearman correlations and the 95% confidence intervals are presented for all the miRNAs that were present on a platform, or using the 54 sequence-matched miRNAs that were detected by all four microarray technologies.

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