Table 2.

Agreement of microarray and qRT-PCR data.

	msi1	6xX2x	4xX2x	2xX4x	2xX6x	fis1X2x
Affymetrix	13 (65%)	15 (75%)	18 (90%)	14 (70%)	17 (85%)	18(90%)
Agilent		15 (75%)	8 (40%)	17 (85%)	19 (95%)	16 (80%)

Expression of 20 genes was tested using qRT-PCR and calls of up, down, or not changed were compared with calls for the same genes in the microarray data. Each cell shows the number (percentage) of calls that agreed out of a maximum of 20. qRT-PCR results are provided in Additional file 4 table S4.