When we separately analyzed the FF and FFPE samples to identify differentially expressed genes in breast tumor compared to adjacent normal tissue, disease status or "tissue type", "batch#" and "block archival age" were entered as ANOVA factors in the 3-way ANOVA model.
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The data shows that both the "batch effect" and "block age" contributed more significantly as the source of variation in overall expression data in the FFPE samples.
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In each block a batch of 60 pigs was reared in 12 pens (five pigs per pen).
Genotypic means of Box-Cox transformed metabolite concentrations were obtained using a linear mixed model analysis including effects for field trial, replication, block, and batch.
The linear model (1) h i = μ + dye + block + batch + person + ε i, with μ as the overall mean, was then fit to the normalized intensities of each gene i (h i) in the Cy3 and Cy5 channels to account for technical effects within the experiment (gene-specific 'dye' effect, replicate 'block', microarray fabrication 'batch', experimenter 'person' are all fixed effects).
In the next step, we analyzed the data separately for FF and FFPE samples to evaluate the significance of "batch effect" and "sample block age" as sources of variation in the overall gene expression data.
Because we block on batches, a dye 'bias' only needs to be constant within batches to manage this effect.
The data from the remaining 27 chips were again pre-processed and analyzed as a group, with the RNA processing batch used as a blocking factor.
Density distribution measurement indicates that artifacts produced in the same batch also have low variation from block to block.
