Table 3 Comparison of PTEN immunohistochemistry and FISH results on tissue microarray cores and standard tissue section slides

From: Analytic validation of a clinical-grade PTEN immunohistochemistry assay in prostate cancer by comparison with PTEN FISH

Case

Tissue microarray PTEN immunohistochemistry

Standard slide PTEN immunohistochemistry

Tissue microarray PTEN FISH

Standard slide PTEN FISH

1

Intact

Intact

Intact

Intact

2

Intact

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Intact

3

Intact

Intact

Intact

Intact

4

Intact

Intact

Intact

Failure

5

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Homo-deletion

Hemi-deletion and homo-deletion

6

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Homo-deletion

Homo-deletion

7

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Homo-deletion

Homo-deletion

8

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Intact

9

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Intact

10

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Intact

Intact

11

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Intact

12

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Intact

Hemi-deletion

13

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Homo

14

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Homo

15

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Hemi-deletion of WAPAL

16

Homogeneous loss

Homogeneous loss

Hemi-deletion

Hemi-deletion

17

Homogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Intact

Hemi-deletion

18

ambiguous

Intact

Intact

Intact

19

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Core missing

Intact

20

Heterogeneous loss

Heterogeneous loss

Core missing

Intact