Breast Cancer Research

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Evaluation of biological pathways involved in chemotherapy response in breast cancer

Attila Tordai1,4, Jing Wang2, Fabrice Andre5, Cornelia Liedtke1, Kai Yan2, Christos Sotiriou6, Gabriel N Hortobagyi1, W Fraser Symmans3 and Lajos Pusztai1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

2 Departments of Bioinformatics and Computation Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

3 Department of Pathology of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

4 Department of Molecular Diagnostics, National Medical Center, Budapest, Hungary

5 Unit UPRES03535, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

6 Jules Bordet Institut, Brussels, Belgium

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Breast Cancer Research 2008, 10:R37 doi:10.1186/bcr2088

Published: 29 April 2008

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Supplementary Table 1 includes a complete list of all probe sets that comprise each of the 852 gene sets.

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Supplementary Figure 1 presents the same plots as Figure 1 for ER-negative cancers but also includes heat maps of the proliferation set (FDR q = 0.1, p = 0.05) (Supplementary Figure 1A); the genomic grade index set (FDR q = 0.04, p = 0.08) (Supplementary Figure 1B); and the E2F3 pathway gene set (FDR q = 0.2, p = 0.07) (Supplementary Figure 1C). All of these were enriched in the group with pathologic complete response, while no gene set was enriched in the group with residual cancer.

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Supplementary Figure 2 presents the same plots as Figure 3 for ER-positive cancers but also includes heat maps of the proliferation set (FDR q = 0.001, p = 0.002) (Supplementary Figure 2A) and the genomic grade index set (FDR q = 0.015, p = 0.01) (Supplementary Figure 2B). In the group with residual cancer, 2 other gene sets showed enrichment including the ER-associated gene list (FDR q = 0.03, p = 0.04) Supplementary Figure 2C) and the mutant p53 gene signature (FDR q = 0.0019, p = 0.07) (Supplementary Figure 2D).

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Supplementary Table 2 includes the complete list of probes and genes included in the five enriched gene sets.

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