This resource can be helpful to select Trichostatin A candidate genes potentially involved in different horticultural traits, such as flowering, floral architecture, scent production and emission, senescence and abscission. We used the microarray developed herein to identify genes whose expression is associated with some of these rose important traits, such as flower initiation, development and senescence. Rosa1_Affyarray harbors sequences from ESTs found in petals of different rose genotypes and thus may be helpful to identify genes associated with other rose traits such as scent biosynthesis and/ or emission genes. The rose is among the species that exhibit the highest scent complexity and some scent biosynthesis pathways are unique to the rose or not yet identified in other model species including other members of the Rosaceae genus. QTLs have been identified to be associated to several important traits of the rose. However, the heterozygous genome of the rose complicates the breeding programs to select for several traits simultaneously. The identification of genes whose expression correlates with important ornamental traits can facilitate and accelerate candidate gene identification for rose breeding by marker assisted selection or PB 203580 in vivo genomic selection. For example, this dataset can provide researchers with a useful resource on the expression of candidate genes within a given mapping interval. Furthermore, the rapidly progressing high throughput sequencing technologies should allow the generation of precise genetic maps for the rose that could be combined to refined transcriptomics approaches to identify the genes responsible for important horticultural traits in the rose, and allow subsequent marker-assisted selection. The high prevalence of benign thyroid nodules in adult population makes the preoperative detection of thyroid cancer comparable to ��looking for a needle in a haystack��. The prevalence of thyroid nodules increases with age, average 4�C7% for the U.S.A. adult population but it is much higher when sub-clinical nodules are also considered. Fortunately, about 90% of these lesions are benign and for this reason a reliable and systematic approach to their preoperative characterization is necessary. The expression of Sodium Iodide Symporter on the membrane of the thyroid cells allows the thyroid gland to concentrate iodide from the serum. NIS-mediated iodide uptake is required for the subsequent organification and oxidation steps, which are key events for the production of thyroid hormones. This peculiar property of the gland supports conventional thyroid scintigraphy, which uses radioiodine in defining the thyroid gland in both physiological and pathological states. However this widely used technique does not allow the distinction among benign and malignant thyroid proliferations.