Table 2.

mRINs and PINs with their associated P-values of the degraded prostate tissues

	Patient ID	Tissue type	mRNA		Protein
			mRIN	P-value	PIN	P-value
mRNA degraded samples	33	Tumor	−0.210	1.6E−40	0.955	0.542
	35	Tumor	−0.203	3.9E−38	0.956	0.649
	33	Tumor	−0.161	4.6E−25	0.949	0.187
	35	Benign	−0.127	7.9E−17	0.947	0.133
	35	Tumor	−0.113	6.2E−14	0.951	0.303
	37	Tumor	−0.096	1.2E−10	0.951	0.276
	14	Tumor	−0.087	2.6E−09	0.951	0.286
	38	Tumor	−0.073	3.6E−07	0.963	0.997
	37	Tumor	−0.070	7.9E−07	0.947	0.125
	33	Benign	−0.064	4.7E−06	0.951	0.255
	38	Benign	−0.063	6.2E−06	0.957	0.697
	7	Tumor	−0.053	8.6E−05	0.955	0.542
	31	Tumor	−0.043	8.5E−04	0.956	0.649
Protein degraded samples	16	Benign	−0.004	0.212	0.937	9.4E-05
	10	Tumor	0.030	0.895	0.940	0.0015
	37	Benign	−0.028	0.012	0.941	0.0028
	12	Tumor	0.013	0.576	0.941	0.0052

The degraded tissues were significantly degraded at either transcript or protein level (P-value < 0.01). P-values were obtained from the mRIN and PIN algorithm, respectively