Table 5. Comparison of methods analyzing CNV using FFPE tissue.

	Thompson et al	Little et al	Tuefferd et al	Lips et al	Oosting et al	Soroush et al	Yu et al
Platform	Affymetrix	GenomePlex	Affymetrix	Illumina	Illumina/Affymetrix	Agilent/Affymetrix	Affymetrix
Array Type	10K	aCGH	SNP 6.0	BeadArray	BeadArray/10K	aCGH/SNP6.0	CytoscanHD
Number of Loci	10000	5623	1.85 million	5861	5861/10000	40161/1.85 million	2.6 million
CNV FFPE vs. Frozen	NE	NE	53%	NA	NE	NA	93.80%
CNV FFPE vs. karyotype	NE	NE	NE	NA	NE	NA	91%
FISH validation rate	NE	NE	NE	NA	NE	NA	93.80%

NE-Not examined; NA-Not applicable.