Table 1. TMA information.

TMA	Validation TMA 1	Validation TMA 2	Validation TMA 3	Validation TMA 4
Hospital patient samples	Uppsala University Hospital	Uppsala University Hospital	Uppsala University Hospital & Falun Central Hospital	Skåne University Hospital Malmö
Number of prostate cases	90	19	57	122
Size cores and replicates	1 mm (duplicate cores)	2 mm (1 core)	1 mm (duplicate benign cores and triplicate tumour cores)	1 mm (duplicate cores)
Number of prostate benign cases	15	13	57	122
Number prostate tumour cases	60	6	57	122
Number prostate metastatic cases	15	0	0	0
Ethical approval granted by	Research Ethics Committee at Uppsala University	Research Ethics Committee at Uppsala University	National Ethical Committee in Stockholm	Regional Ethical Review Board at Lund University
Ethics reference code	Ups 02–577	Ups 02–577	Dnr ö 25–2006	DN. 445–07
Gleason grade range	GG 2–5	GG 3–5	GG 3–5	GG 2–5
Year range of prostatectomy samples in TMA	1990–2006	1990–2006	1993–2001	1998–2003
Reference previously describing TMA	[12]	[12]	_	[13]