Reliability and performance of commercial RNA and DNA extraction kits for FFPE tissue cores

• Palak G. Patel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Palak G. Patel, Shamini Selvarajah

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Division of Cancer Biology & Genetics, Queen’s Cancer Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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• Shamini Selvarajah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Palak G. Patel, Shamini Selvarajah

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Trillium Health Partners–Credit Valley Site, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

  Affiliation Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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• Karl-Philippe Guérard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• John M. S. Bartlett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Diagnostic Development Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jacques Lapointe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• David M. Berman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Division of Cancer Biology & Genetics, Queen’s Cancer Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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• John B. A. Okello,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Division of Cancer Biology & Genetics, Queen’s Cancer Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5889-1905

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• Paul C. Park

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pcp1@queensu.ca, pcpark@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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