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To validate the microarray expression data with an independent method, we carried out real-time quantitative RT-PCR analyses for a sub-set of 11 genes on all 8 samples that were used on the GeneChips ®. The results were amazingly consistent for fold change and direction of change in almost all instances.
Nevertheless, only 16 differentially expressed genes were identified, with a sub-set confirmed by quantitative RT-PCR.