Research Article

High Specificity of Quantitative Methylation-Specific PCR Analysis for MGMT Promoter Hypermethylation Detection in Gliomas

Figure 1

Box plot for the MGMT/ACTB ratios determined by Quantitative Methylatiom Specific PCR in normal brain tissues and tumour samples. NBT: Normal brain tissues ( ); FFPE: Formalin fixed paraffin-embedded samples ( ); SnF: Snap-frozen specimens ( ); Tum: Total tumour samples ( ). The boxes mark the interquartile range, (interval between the 25th and 75th percentile). The lines inside the boxes denote median values. The whiskers represent the interval between the 10th and 90th percentiles. *indicates the extreme cases with more than three boxes length upper or down from the interquartile range.
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