Quantitative and Sensitive Detection of Cancer Genome Amplifications from Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded Tumors with Droplet Digital PCR

Lincoln Nadauld^1#, John F Regan^2#, Laura Miotke¹, Reet K Pai³, Teri A Longacre³, Shirley S Kwok³, Serge Saxonov², James M Ford¹ and Hanlee P Ji^1,4*

¹Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

²Bio-Rad, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, USA

³Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

⁴Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

^#Contributed equally to this work

^*Corresponding Author: Hanlee P Ji, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CCSR 1115, 269 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5151, USA, Fax: 650-725-1420 Email: