Highly sensitive and specific microRNA expression profiling using BeadArray technology |
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Authors: | Chen Jing Lozach Jean Garcia Eliza Wickham Barnes Bret Luo Shujun Mikoulitch Ivan Zhou Lixin Schroth Gary Fan Jian-Bing |
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Affiliation: | Illumina, Inc. 9885 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. |
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Abstract: | We have developed a highly sensitive, specific and reproducible method for microRNA (miRNA) expression profiling, using the BeadArray™ technology. This method incorporates an enzyme-assisted specificity step, a solid-phase primer extension to distinguish between members of miRNA families. In addition, a universal PCR is used to amplify all targets prior to array hybridization. Currently, assay probes are designed to simultaneously analyse 735 well-annotated human miRNAs. Using this method, highly reproducible miRNA expression profiles were generated with 100–200 ng total RNA input. Furthermore, very similar expression profiles were obtained with total RNA and enriched small RNA species (R2 ≥ 0.97). The method has a 3.5–4 log (105–109 molecules) dynamic range and is able to detect 1.2- to 1.3-fold-differences between samples. Expression profiles generated by this method are highly comparable to those obtained with RT–PCR (R2 = 0.85–0.90) and direct sequencing (R = 0.87–0.89). This method, in conjunction with the 96-sample array matrix should prove useful for high-throughput expression profiling of miRNAs in large numbers of tissue samples. |
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