mRNA extracted from frozen buffy coat samples stored long term in tubes with no RNA preservative shows promise for downstream sequencing analyses

• Erik Bovinder Ylitalo,

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

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Linda Vidman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-4074

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• Sophia Harlid,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Bethany Van Guelpen

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

  * E-mail: bethany.vanguelpen@umu.se

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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