Breast Cancer Research

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Meta-analysis of gene expression profiles in breast cancer: toward a unified understanding of breast cancer subtyping and prognosis signatures

Pratyaksha Wirapati1, Christos Sotiriou2*, Susanne Kunkel1, Pierre Farmer3,1, Sylvain Pradervand4, Benjamin Haibe-Kains2,5, Christine Desmedt2, Michail Ignatiadis2, Thierry Sengstag3,1, Frédéric Schütz1, Darlene R Goldstein4,1,6, Martine Piccart2 and Mauro Delorenzi3,1

Author Affiliations

1 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 'Batiment Genopode', University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

2 Translational Research and Medical Oncology Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut Jules Bordet, 121 Boulevard de Waterloo, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

3 National Centers for Competence in Research, Molecular Oncology, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Ch. des Boveresses 155, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland

4 DNA Array Facility, Center for Integrative Genomics, 'Batiment Genopode', University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

5 Machine Learning Group, Université Libre de Bruxelles, boulevard du Triomphe, CP212, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

6 Institut de Mathématiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Breast Cancer Research 2008, 10:R65 doi:10.1186/bcr2124

Published: 28 July 2008

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Additional file 1:

Supplementary methods. Supplementary methods including the following sections: 'Probe annotation and gene matching', 'Preprocessing of expression values', 'Identifying coexpression modules', 'Module scores', 'Clustering and multimodality tests', 'Survival analysis', 'Cell-cycle periodicity' and 'Cross-platform applications of signatures'.

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Supplementary results. Supplementary Results including Supplementary Figures 1–5 and the results from the 'Combined prediction by pairs of signatures' (Supplementary Figure 6).

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Additional file 3:

ESR1, ERBB2 and proliferation coexpression modules. The spreadsheet describes the ESR1, ERBB2 and proliferation (AURKA) coexpression modules. The columns are described in the first lines starting by '#' in the text file.

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