Assessment of Control Tissue for Gene and Protein Expression Studies: A Comparison of Three Alternative Lung Sources

Table 2

Patient demographics.

	Cancer	Transplant	Pneumothorax
Age	37–81 (median 68) years	22–61 (median 40) years	17–65 (median 24) years
Gender	14 females; 15 males	13 females; 10 males	3 females; 4 males
Diagnosis	Adenocarcinoma (𝑛=15); Squamous cell carcinoma (𝑛=5); Carcinoid tumour (𝑛=3); Large cell carcinoma (𝑛=3); Intralobular pulmonary sequestration (𝑛=1); Usual interstitial pneumonia (𝑛=1); Cryptococcoma (𝑛=1)	Bilateral lung transplant	Pneumothorax
Smoking history	Yes (𝑛=25); No (𝑛=4)	Yes (𝑛=1); No (𝑛=25)	No (𝑛=7)