Table 1 Amplification Efficiency of Short and Long Amplicons in Frozen and FFPE tissues

From: Quantitative assessment of short amplicons in FFPE-derived long-chain RNA

 

Frozen tissue

FFPE tissue

RNA

Efficiency (%)

Coefficient (R2)

Efficiency (%)

Coefficient (R2)

 

Short-A

Long

Short-A

Long

Short-A

Long

Short-A

Long

Endogenous control

        

β-actin

100

129

0.999

0.907

101

204

1.000

0.775

Target RNA

        

DD3

107

169

0.973

0.904

109

111

0.962

0.631

H19

105

163

0.999

0.852

106

2840

0.993

0.208

MALAT1

106

198

0.999

0.731

105

371

1.000

0.414

MEG3

100

135

0.988

0.892

111

618

0.983

0.521

p15AS

139

174

0.966

0.761

114

287

0.699

0.826

UCA1

158

249

0.985

0.877

271

-98

0.969

0.207

CDK6

106

221

0.988

0.798

96

-62

0.972

0.656

JUN

108

118

0.999

0.952

106

315

0.998

0.636

MAPK3

98

87

0.999

0.981

99

168

0.968

0.887

PDGFRA

107

141

0.999

0.897

102

525

0.996

0.46

PDGFRB

108

117

0.999

0.979

118

222

0.985

0.844

PIK3R3

103

215

0.962

0.782

110

-98

0.926

0.048

SMAD3

113

115

0.994

0.976

110

154

0.978

0.700

SMAD4

101

109

0.994

0.984

107

202

0.935

0.845

Mean ± SD

111 ± 0.2

156 ± 0.5

0.990 ± 0.0

0.885 ± 0.1

118 ± 0.4

384 ± 7.1

0.957 ± 0.1

0.577 ± 0.3

P value

0.0006

 

< 0.0001

 

0.0152

 

< 0.0001