Figure 5
Genes highly expressed in myxofibrosarcoma. (a) Box-and-whisker plots indicating expression values for each histological type of spindle cell and pleomorphic sarcomas. A total of 40 control samples were analyzed. (b) Comparison between microarray analysis and quantitative RT-PCR of WISP2, GPR64 and TNXB expression. Expression levels were normalized to that of ACTB in both microarray and RT-PCR data. NCCS099 (Dmin=0.46), NCCS085 (Dmin=0.66), NCCS089 (Dmin=0.75) and NCCS092 (Dmin=0.66) were similar to myxofibrosarcoma in terms of gene expression (see Figure 3c). DDLS, dedifferentiated liposarcoma; MFS, myxofibrosarcoma; LMS, leiomyosarcoma and FS, fibrosarcoma.
