Table 1

Publicly available gene expression data from breast cancer studies

Dataset symbol
Number of arrays
Institution
Reference(s)
Platform
Data source
Number of GeneIDs

Genomic platforms






NKI
337
Nederlands Kanker Instituut (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
[19,20]
Agilent
Author's website
13,120
EMC
286
Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
[21]
Affymetrix U133A
GEO: GSE2034
11,837
UPP
249
Karolinksa Institute (Uppsala, Sweden)
[3,11]
Affymetrix U133A,B
GEO: GSE4922
15,684
STOCK
159
Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden)
[3,13]
Affymetrix U133A,B
GEO: GSE1456
15,684
DUKE
171
Duke University (Durham, NC, USA)
[8]
Affymetrix U95Av2
Author's website
8,149
UCSF
161 + 8
University of California at San Francisco (USA)
[9]
cDNA
Author's website
6,178
UNC
143 + 10
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
[7]
Agilent HuA1
Author's website
13,784
NCH
135
Nottingham City Hospital (Nottingham, UK)
[12]
Agilent HuA1
AE: E-UCON-1
13,784
STNO
115 + 7
Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA)/Norwegian Radium Hospital (Oslo, Norway)
[16]
cDNA
Author's website
5,614
JRH1
99
John Radcliffe Hospital (Oxford, UK)
[17]
cDNA
Journal's website
4,112
JRH2
61
John Radcliffe Hospital
[18]
Affymetrix U133A
GEO: GSE2990
11,837
MGH
60
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA, USA)
[10]
Agilent
GEO: GSE1379
11,421
expO
239
International Genomic Consortium
[41]
Affymetrix U133v2
GEO: GSE2109
16,634
TGIF1
49
EORTC trial 10994
[5]
Affymetrix U133A
GEO: GSE1561
11,837
BWH
40 + 7
Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, MA, USA)
[14]
Affymetrix U133v2
GEO: GSE3744
16,634
Small diagnostic platforms






TRANSBIG
253
TRANSBIG Consortium
[2]
Agilent
AE: E-TABM-77
1,052
EMC2
180
Erasmus Medical Center
[6]
Affymetrix (custom)
GSE3453
86
HPAZ
96
Hospital La Paz (Madrid, Spain)
[4]
RT-PCR
Appendix of [4]
61
Total
2,865 = 2,833 carcinomas + 32 nonmalignant breast tissues
Number of the union of all GeneIDs:
17,198



Number of GeneIDs common to genomic platforms:
1,963

Datasets UNC, STNO, UCSF, and BWH include a small number of normal breast or fibroadenoma tissue samples. AE, ArrayExpress (accession); Affymetrix, Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA; Agilent, Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA; EORTC, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer; GEO, Gene Expression Omnibus (accession); RT-PCR, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.

Wirapati et al. Breast Cancer Research 2008 10:R65   doi:10.1186/bcr2124

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