title: Tumor Microenvironment in Gene Signatures: Critical Biology or Confounding Noise?
abstract: The tumor microenvironment contributes important information in gene expression signatures but may be susceptible to sampling variance. Mesenchymal signatures in particular may be influenced by sampling of nonrepresentative regions with high stromal content. Appropriate pathology quality control is required to ensure reproducibility of gene expression signatures. Clin Cancer Res; 22(16); 3989-91. ©2016 AACRSee related article by Dunne et al., p. 4095.
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. skopetz@mdanderson.org.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kopetz
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology*; D059467:Transcriptome; D059016:Tumor Microenvironment / Q000235:genetics*