Table 3.
Datasets used for meta analysis
| Published | PTC | o.d. | c.lat | Platform | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| He | PNAS 2005 | 9 | 0 | 9 | Affy U133plus | 54k |
| Huang | PNAS 2001 | 8 | 0 | 8 | Affy U95A | 12k |
| Jarzab | Cancer Res 2005 | 23 | 11 | 17 | Affy U133A | 22k |
| Reyes | not published | 7 | 0 | 7 | Affy U133A | 22k |
Microarray Data used for meta analysis. The studies used 2 types of benign samples: samples from patients that were operated for other thyroid disease (o.d) and samples from the contralateral lobe (c.lat). Data was obtained from GEO http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ or institutional websites.