Research Article
High Specificity of Quantitative Methylation-Specific PCR Analysis for MGMT Promoter Hypermethylation Detection in Gliomas
Table 3
Comparison of MGMT methylation status as determined by Quantitative Methylation-Specific PCR (QMSP) and. Methylation-Specific PCR (MSP).
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*NBT: Normal brain tissue; FFPE: Formalin fixed paraffin embedded specimens, SF: Snap-frozen specimen; MSP +: A band is seen in gel electrophoresis; -: No band is seen in gel electrophoresis. #: Measure of the degree of concordance between MSP and QMSP (see Materials and Methods), 95%CI, Confidence interval. |