Extraction of high molecular weight DNA from frozen tumor samples was carried out using a Qiagen Blood & Cell Culture DNA Midi Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) after milling of the frozen sample in a Micro-Dismembrator S (B. Braun, Melsungen, Germany).
Label
biotin/DNP
Label protocol
Illumina
Hybridization protocol
Illumina
Scan protocol
Illumina iScan System
Data processing
Raw signal intensities were obtained from IDAT-files using the minfi Bioconductor package. Signal intensities were normalized per sample by performing a background correction (shifting of mean negative control probe intensity to 0) and a dye-bias correction (scaling of mean normalization control probe intensity to 10,000). Standard beta-values were calculated.