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Table 3 Pre- and post chip variables for samples flagged as potential outliers on at least one post-chip quality control measure. Samples were identified as outliers as judged empirically within the experiment and detailed in the results. Samples (*) were excluded from expression analysis. Samples from cases with prolonged agonal state (†). CB, cerebellum; CN, caudate nucleus; MC, motor cortex.

From: Assessment of the relationship between pre-chip and post-chip quality measures for Affymetrix GeneChip expression data

Pre-chip variables

Sample

PMI

SUBQUAL

RIN

YIELD

H104 CB

14

3

7.4

77

H122 CB*†

9

2

8.1

68

H85 CB*†

10

3

7.4

65

HC79 CB*†

4

4

8.1

44

H123 CN*

7.5

3

7.6

66

HC61 CN

6

3

7.1

59

H131 MC*

13

4

9.1

48

HC71 MC*

5

1

4.3

36

HC52 MC

23

1

6.5

56

HC55 MC

20

1

6.6

44

Post-chip variables: assessed within MAS 5.0 (Affymetrix)

 

BG

RAWQ

NOISE

PC_PRESENT

SF

B_ACTIN35

GAPDH35

H104 CB

271

7.5

13.9

42

2.2

1.7

1.2

H122 CB*†

438

9.5

34.8

36

1.9

1.7

1.0

H85 CB*†

92

3.6

5.7

49

2.1

1.8

1.1

HC79 CB*†

87

3.4

5.5

45

1.7

55.9

31.6

H123 CN*

103

3.7

7.6

30

4.1

2.4

0.8

HC61 CN

119

4.0

5.2

43

4.0

1.5

1.2

H131 MC*

250

8.4

38.2

24

1.1

1.6

1.1

HC71 MC*

107

3.6

4.7

26

7.7

4.0

4.1

HC52 MC

122

4.2

6.0

39

3.6

3.9

2.1

HC55 MC

98

3.4

4.7

41

3.4

2.6

2.0

Post-chip variables: assessed within dChip (Li and Wong, 2001)

 

DCHIP_AR_OUTLIER

DCHIP_SING_OUTLIER

DCHIP_PCCALL

MEDINT

H104 CB

2.71

0.61

55

597

H122 CB*†

14.72

1.85

41

1199

H85 CB*†

6.92

0.40

61

358

HC79 CB*†

12.75

0.38

55

327

H123 CN*

30.48

1.72

42

369

HC61 CN

4.05

0.58

57

287

H131 MC*

47.59

2.30

36

1620

HC71 MC*

19.66

1.23

39

266

HC52 MC

1.70

0.20

52

331

HC55 MC

3.19

0.29

53

294

Post-chip variables: assessed within Bioconductor packages affy, affyPLM and specialised code [15, 22]

 

MED_NUSE

IQR_LR1

B_LR1

IQRplusAbsB_LR1

CV_LR1

IQR_LR2

B_LR2

IQRplusAbsB_LR2

CV_LR2

H104 CB

1.06

0.27

-0.048

0.32

17.3

0.27

-0.029

0.30

10.7

H122 CB*†

1.24

0.66

-0.105

0.76

16.0

0.64

-0.098

0.74

15.2

H85 CB*†

1.08

0.42

0.008

0.43

1.9

0.38

0.014

0.40

3.7

HC79 CB*†

1.12

0.56

-0.001

0.56

0.2

0.56

0.000

0.56

0.1

H123 CN*

1.26

0.67

0.241

0.91

35.9

0.65

0.220

0.87

33.8

HC61 CN

1.06

0.30

0.025

0.33

8.4

0.25

0.000

0.25

0.0

H131 MC*

1.26

1.04

-0.050

1.09

4.8

0.98

-0.040

1.02

4.1

HC71 MC*

1.2

0.96

0.165

1.13

17.2

0.87

0.150

1.02

17.3

HC52 MC

1.06

0.43

0.063

0.49

14.5

0.34

0.039

0.38

11.3

HC55 MC

1.07

0.42

0.039

0.46

9.4

0.34

0.015

0.35

4.4

Post-chip variables: assessed within affy, Bioconductor

 

RNADEG_SLOPE

PVAL_SLOPE

H104 CB

2.40

3.8 × 10-9

H122 CB*†

0.86

4.9 × 10-3

H85 CB*†

2.22

1.2 × 10-7

HC79 CB*†

3.96

1.0 × 10-9

H123 CN*

1.61

3.2 × 10-7

HC61 CN

2.40

9.7 × 10-9

H131 MC*

1.17

2.2 × 10-5

HC71 MC*

2.67

6.0 × 10-10

HC52 MC

3.61

4.2 × 10-12

HC55 MC

3.20

3.2 × 10-11