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LIFE09200604007 Tabish - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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slides were then dried and the fluorescent images of hybridized microarrays were<br />

obtained using a GenePix 4200A microarray scanner. Primary data analysis for<br />

determining differential expression of genes between was carried out using the Genepix<br />

Pro software version 5.0.<br />

10. Quantitative RT-PCR: Differential expression of genes was validated by<br />

Quantitative RT-PCR. Invitrogen RT-PCR kit was used to reverse transcribe total RNA<br />

using both oligo dT and random primers. The synthesized cDNA was diluted to a final<br />

concentration of 10 ng/µl with nuclease free H 2 O to be used as a template for real time<br />

reactions. All PCR reactions were performed in duplicate using Power SYBR Green<br />

and analysed on ABI Prism 7700 Sequence Detection System. GAPDH was used as<br />

endogenous RNA control and each sample was normalized on the basis of its<br />

endogenous gene expression.<br />

11. Statistical methods: Phenotypic assays were performed thrice wherever a statistical<br />

analysis was done. The differences between MPN patient and control groups, for DNA<br />

damage repair assay, cell cycle profile and percent cell death response, were examined<br />

by standard unpaired Student‟s t-test or Mann-Whitney U test depending on whether<br />

the data followed normal distribution or not, respectively. For statistical analysis of<br />

genotyping data G Score was compared between the two groups by unpaired Student‟s<br />

t-test. All analyses were performed using the GraphPad Prism V 5.0 and a p-value of ≤<br />

0.05 was considered significant. For genotype phenotype correlation, statistical<br />

dependence between two variables (G Score and phenotypic response) was calculated<br />

by applying standard Pearson or Spearman rank correlation. The negative or positive<br />

value of correlation coefficient indicated the negative or positive correlation between<br />

the variables. A p-value of ≤ 0.05 was taken to be significant.<br />

Results:<br />

1. Preparation and characterization of EBV cell line: A total of 34 LCLs from UADT<br />

MPN patients (n=24) and healthy controls (n=10) were prepared from PBLs isolated<br />

from blood samples. Sixteen UADT MPN patient (n=8) and healthy control cell lines<br />

(n=8) were prepared as a part of earlier study in the lab; eighteen MPN patient (n=16)<br />

and control cell lines (n=2) have been prepared in the present study. The average<br />

population doubling (PD) time of representative LCLs was found to be 24 h.<br />

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