Affymetrix Whole-Transcript Human Gene 1.0 ST array is highly concordant with standard 3' expression arrays.
The recently released Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST array has two major differences compared with standard 3' based arrays: (i) it interrogates the entire mRNA transcript, and (ii) it uses DNA targets. To assess the impact of these differences on array performance, we performed a series of comparative hybridizations between the Human Gene 1.0 ST and the Affymetrix HG-U133 Plus 2.0 and the Illumina HumanRef-8 BeadChip arrays. Additionally, both RNA and DNA targets were hybridized on HG-U133 Plus 2.0 arrays. The results show that the overall reproducibility of the Gene 1.0 ST array is best. When looking only at the high intensity probes, the reproducibility of the Gene 1.0 ST array and the Illumina BeadChip array is equally good. Concordance of array results was assessed using different inter-platform mappings. Agreements are best between the two labeling protocols using HG-U133 Plus 2.0 array. The Gene 1.0 ST array is most concordant with the HG-U133 array hybridized with cDNA targets. This may reflect the impact of the target type. Overall, the high degree of correspondence provides strong evidence for the reliability of the Gene 1.0 ST array.
Pradervand
Sylvain
S
DNA Array Facility, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Sylvain.Pradervand@unil.ch
Paillusson
Alexandra
A
Thomas
Jérôme
J
Weber
Johann
J
Wirapati
Pratyaksha
P
Hagenbüchle
Otto
O
Harshman
Keith
K
D024509:3' Flanking Region / Q000235:genetics*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D015894:Genome, Human / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D020543:Proteome / Q000235:genetics*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
D020543:Proteome; D014157:Transcription Factors