title: Custom Illumina Sentrix Human Cancer Genes
status: Public on Apr 10 2008
contact.city: Rockville
contact.first: Andrew
contact.middle: W
contact.last: Bergen
contact.email: andrew.bergen@sri.com
contact.state: MD
contact.address: 6120 Executive Blvd
contact.department: Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
contact.country: USA
contact.institute: NCI/NIH
contact.phone: 240-463-1430
organism: Homo sapiens
description: This custom Illumina Sentrix® Array Matrix-96 microarray contains 50mer probes targeting 697 genes relevant to cancer research. Candidate gene content for the custom array was developed by a voting scheme based on other "cancer gene" lists available on the World Wide Web on November 6, 2003.  Eleven lists were assembled from a variety of academic, industrial and government sources and a list of all genes present on all lists was assembled with the genes ranked according to frequency of occurrence.  Any gene appearing ≥ four lists was included in the array design. We designed the custom microarray using transcript sequences from NCBI RefSeq build 34.3. Sequences overlapping SNPs as defined in dbSNP build 121 and SNP500Cancer were avoided.
manufacture_protocol: Sentrix Array