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Purpose: This study aimed to develop gene classifiers to predict colorectal cancer recurrence. We investigated whether gene classifiers derived from two tumor series using different array platforms could be independently validated by application to the alternate series of patients.

Experimental Design: Colorectal tumors from New Zealand (n = 149) and Germany (n = 55) patients had a minimum follow-up of 5 years. RNA was profiled using oligonucleotide printed microarrays (New Zealand samples) and Affymetrix arrays (German samples). Classifiers based on clinical data, gene expression data, and a combination of the two were produced and used to predict recurrence. The use of gene expression information was found to improve the predictive ability in both data sets. The New Zealand and German gene classifiers were cross-validated on the German and New Zealand data sets …