title: Assessing quality of hybridized RNA in Affymetrix GeneChip experiments using mixed-effects models.
abstract: The technology for hybridizing archived tissue specimens and the use of laser-capture microdissection for selecting cell populations for RNA extraction have increased over the past few years. Both these methods contribute to RNA degradation. Therefore, quality assessments of RNA hybridized to microarrays are becoming increasingly more important. Existing methods for estimating the quality of RNA hybridized to a GeneChip, from resulting microarray data, suffer from subjectivity and lack of estimates of variability. In this article, a method for assessing RNA quality for a hybridized array which overcomes these drawbacks is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by the application of the method to two microarray data sets for which external verification of RNA quality is known.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Sanger Hall B1-066, 1101 East Marshall Street, Richmond, VA 23298-0032, USA. kjarcher@vcu.edu
authors.forename: Kellie J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Archer
authors.forename: Catherine I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Dumur
authors.forename: Suresh E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Joel
authors.forename: Viswanathan
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ramakrishnan
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry / Q000379:methods*; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D012334:RNA, Neoplasm; D012313:RNA