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PROFILING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does profiling mean?
• PROFILING (noun)
The noun PROFILING has 1 sense:
1. recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
Familiarity information: PROFILING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("profiling" is a kind of...):
identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)
Context examples
Microarray gene expression profiling studies have demonstrated the expression of ZAP-70 gene (Syk family tyrosine kinase) in this subset of CLL/CLL.
(Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma with Unmutated Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Variable-Region Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Classification of glioblastoma into molecular subtypes as defined by gene expression profiling.
(Glioblastoma by Gene Expression Profile, NCI Thesaurus)
Uveal melanoma with low metastatic risk as defined by gene expression profiling.
(Class 1a Uveal Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Gene expression profiling that classifies uveal melanomas into a low-grade group.
(Class 1 Uveal Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The Microarray Shared Resource supports Cancer Center research activity performing gene expression profiling in which the activity of many thousands of genes is measured simultaneously.
(Microarray Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
A form of gene and protein expression profiling that is indicative of the biological behavior of a tumor or cancer.
(Molecular Signature, NCI Thesaurus)
Gene expression profiling that classifies uveal melanomas into a high-grade group.
(Class 2 Uveal Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Uveal melanoma with intermediate metastatic risk as defined by gene expression profiling.
(Class 1b Uveal Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A form of gene expression profiling that is indicative of the biological behavior of a tumor or cancer.
(Gene Signature, NCI Thesaurus)
The Genomics and Proteomics Shared Resource is an integrated resource that provides genomic and proteomic technologies to the Cancer Center investigators for basic and clinical research applications including DNA and RNA isolation, DNA sequencing, serial analysis of gene expression library production, SNP genotyping, STRP genotyping, microarray analysis, quantitative RT-PCR, protein identification and sequencing and profiling.
(Genomics and Proteomics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
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