Figure 2.

Workflow diagram of the gastric cancer task force. Briefly, GC patient FFPE sections from archived samples are used for TMA analysis and EBV identification. In addition, DNA/RNA is extracted from FFPE samples for NGS, SNPs, and methylation analyses. Genomic and expression profiles of patients are correlated with 120 clinical parameters obtained from patients’ medical records by multivariate analysis. For further details please refer to text. EBV = Epstein–Barr virus, FFPE = formalin-fixed paraffin embedded, GC = gastric cancer, NGS = next generation sequencing, SNP = single nucleotide polymorphism, TMA = tissue microarray.