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affecting probe-target duplex f<strong>or</strong>mation. Several such fact<strong>or</strong>s include the presence <strong>of</strong> SNPs in the<br />

transcript region <strong>of</strong> interest, cross-hybridization abilities <strong>of</strong> similar transcript regions having high<br />

sequence similarity, and secondary and tertiary structures yielding inaccessible probes and target<br />

transcript regions. An additional level <strong>of</strong> confusion arises from the presence <strong>of</strong> alternate alleles,<br />

whether as uncharacterized SNPs, larger indels and copy number variations, <strong>or</strong> alternate transcript<br />

f<strong>or</strong>ms. In <strong>or</strong>der f<strong>or</strong> the results <strong>of</strong> Microarray experiments to have scientific merit, a significant<br />

eff<strong>or</strong>t must be made to identify the potential source <strong>of</strong> deficiencies in probe sensitivities due to<br />

any and all <strong>of</strong> these causes, preferably explicitly, in <strong>or</strong>der to provide m<strong>or</strong>e reliable and thereby<br />

m<strong>or</strong>e reproducible measurements.<br />

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