title: Overcoming challenges of using blood samples with gene expression microarrays to advance patient stratification in clinical trials.
abstract: The advances in blood protocols enable improved identification of biomarkers based on RNA expression profiles and might assist us in realizing the promise of pharmacogenomics.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McPhail
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Goralski
mesh_terms: D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D018579:Patient Selection; D010597:Pharmacogenetics; D012313:RNA / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D012313:RNA