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What is the reproducibility of GeneChip® expression arrays?

GeneChip® expression arrays generally have less than 2% false change. This result is determined by hybridizing a single sample to two arrays of the same type, and determining the percentage of probe sets that show a significant change. It has been shown that the false change rate from the arrays, as described previously, is significantly lower than the potential variabilities derived from different biological samples.