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p-AKT, p-S6, and PTEN expression was assessed with immunohistochemistry in 52 BCBMs and 12 matched primary BCs.

In the present study, we explored the expression and prognostic implications of a panel of PI3K-pathway biomarkers, p-AKT, p-S6, and PTEN, in 52 BCBMs and 12 matched primary BCs.

BCBMs (n = 52), including a subset with matched primary BCs (n = 12), from 52 patients treated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) (52%) and Duke University (48%) between 1991 and 2008, were studied.

To identify genes harboring cancer-specific promoter methylation, we examined the methylation status of the 23 genes in five to ten pairs of matched primary CRC (PT) and corresponding normal colon (PN) tissues.

Archival paraffin-embedded tissue samples of matched primary CRC and liver metastases were retrieved for all patients.

14 The matched primary DS-TB cands and controls were included if they had the most similar matching conditions to primary MDR-TB cases.

Similarly, a tissue microarray (TMA) study showed a higher EIF5A2 protein expression in metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumours compared with their matched primary HCC.

We analyzed miRNA expression profiles in matched primary ESCC and corresponding normal esophageal tissues via miRNA microarray analysis and quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR).

Real-time PCR analysis revealed that SRF was significantly upregulated in lymph node metastases compared with matched primary GC tissues and adjacent non-tumor gastric tissues.

Interestingly, of the three biomarkers evaluated in this study, PTEN showed the highest concordance (83%) between matched primary BC and BCBM.

For 152 patients, both CRCLM and matched primary CRC tissue could be evaluated for AURKA staining intensity (Supplementary Figure S4), revealing 63.8% concordant and 36.2% discordant pairs of intensity scores (P<0.01; Supplementary Table S3).