Analysis of the gene expression profile in normal human epidermal keratinocytes and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma cell lines. Homo sapiens

The incidence of keratinocyte-derived skin cancer, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is increasing worldwide making it the second most common metastatic skin cancer. We used microarrays to characterize gene expression profile in normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK) and cSCC cell lines. Overall design: Total RNAs from normal human epidermal keratinocytes (n=5) and cSCC cell lines (n=8) were extracted. The samples were processed for Affymetrix 3´ IVT Express Kit according to manufacture’s protocol.