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. 2018 Sep 24;8:14269. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32549-1

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Methodology flowchart. (a) Samples were collected from fresh frozen human prostate tissue and cryosections were stained with hematoxylin and eosine. Two pathologists evaluated Grade Group and reactive stroma grade (RSG). Samples with >50% tumor content were selected for further metabolomics and transcriptomics analysis. Data analysis included survival analysis (Kaplan-Meier and Cox hazard proportional analysis) with biochemical recurrence as endpoint, multivariate orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA), linear mixed models (LMM), gene expression analysis (GEA) and Pearson correlation between selected genes and metabolites. GEA results were used for enrichment analysis. (b) Venn diagram of samples used for metabolomics, transcriptomics and both.