Fine needle aspirates of kidneys: a promising tool for RNA sequencing in native and transplanted kidneys

BMC Nephrology

Table 1 Patient/sample overview at the time of nephrectomy (n = 11)

Patient	Targeted-panel seq Core biopsy (G16) [healthy tissue]	Targeted-panel seq FNA (G23) [healthy tissue]	Whole transcriptome RNAseq (G16), Tumor [tumor biopsy]	Whole transcriptome RNAseq (G16), Non tumor [healthy tissue]
39 N	X	X	X	X
42 N	X	X
44 N	X	X	X	X
47 N	X	X
49 N	X	X
50 N	X	X	X	X
57 N	X	X	X	X
64 N	X	X	X	X
65 N	X	X	X	X
66 N	X	X
69 N	X	X

Seven males and four females with a mean age of 64 years (95% CI: 58–70) were included. A subset of patients (n = 6) underwent both two-panel mRNA sequencing and full mRNA sequencing

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