Table 3.

Correlation between TaqMan® and microarray data

Gene	Pearson’s r coefficient	two-tailed p
Genes differentially expressed in FVPTC vs classic PTC
CD14	0.83	<0.0001
CD74a	0.87	<0.0001
	0.74	0.0002
CTSC	0.53	0.0170
CTSH	0.71	0.0005
CTSS	0.62	0.0037
DPP6	0.76	0.0001
ETHE1	0.30	0.2008
HLA-A	0.77	<0.0001
HLA-DMA	0.75	0.0001
HLA-DPB1	0.96	<0.0001
HLA-DQB1a	0.70	0.0006
	0.63	0.0031
HLA-DRA	0.82	<0.0001
NONAME	−0.02	0.9323
OSTF1	0.15	0.5171
TDO2	0.68	0.0009
Genes differentially expressed in benign vs malignant
BAX	0.20	0.3997
CAMK1	0.17	0.4771
CD44	0.57	0.0094
CTSS	0.62	0.0037
CXADR	0.36	0.1152
FGFR2	0.84	<0.0001
GALE	0.54	0.0138
ICAM1	0.62	0.0038
LYN	0.45	0.0483
MAPK4	0.76	<0.0001
MMP14	0.36	0.1175
MT1F	0.92	<0.0001
MT1Ka	0.68	0.0011
	0.69	0.0007
	0.70	0.0006
MT1Xa	0.88	<0.0001
	0.88	<0.0001
RAB23	0.70	0.0006
S100A11	0.61	0.0041
SDC2	0.34	0.1415
SDC3	0.57	0.0087
TFF3a	0.97	<0.0001
	0.96	<0.0001
TGFB1	0.56	0.0098
TIMP1	0.73	0.0003
TIMP4	0.80	<0.0001
TOP2A	0.07	0.7769
TSHR	0.18	0.4440

Gene expression profiles for TaqMan® PCR and microarray results were compared using the Pearson coefficient.

^aGenes have more than one probe ID on microarray