Table 2 Assessment of platform reproducibility, Pearson correlation of duplicate measurements§.
Sample | All assays detected | The 125 spike-in miRNAs for which both platforms have assays | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
miRCURY | TaqMan | miRCURY | TaqMan | |
r (n detected) | r (n detected) | r (n detected) | r (n detected) | |
Synthetic #1 | 0.991 (253) | 0.936 (233) | 0.968 (125) | 0.947 (109) |
Synthetic #2 | 0.993 (244) | 0.892 (259) | 0.988 (125) | 0.886 (116) |
Spiked plasma RNA #1 | 0.994 (309) | 0.983 (308) | 0.995 (124) | 0.982 (123) |
Spiked plasma RNA #2 | 0.992 (300) | 0.989 (308) | 0.990 (124) | 0.989 (119) |
Plasma | 0.954 (114) | 0.959 (99) | na | na |
No-RT control | 0.773 (8) | na (0) | na | na |