Abstract
Tissue microarrays (TMAs) reduce the amount of tissue analyzed with the assumption that protein and gene expression patterns are homogeneous throughout tumors. Many tumor types, including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), are heterogeneous in many regards, including cell proliferation. We retrospectively compared Ki-67 labeling indices (LIs) determined by whole tissue section (WTS) vs TMA in a series of 50 GBMs from 45 patients. A paired t test indicated that the difference between average LIs obtained from a TMA vs a WTS was not significant (P = .51). There was no correlation between TMA and WTS (r = 0.042; P = .77), indicating that the methods yielded very different results in individual tumors. The Ki-67 LI did not always correlate with the tissue section in an individual tumor; however, when evaluating a large number of tumors on a TMA, the LI range and mean LI were roughly comparable with the LI range and mean LI determined from the WTS.
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