Table 1 The eight cancer gene lists analyzed in this paper

CGC

Cancer Gene Census

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/Census/

[12]

377*(328**)

OMIM^a

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=omim

[13]

244 (217)

Reviews^b

CancerGenes database

http://cbio.mskcc.org/CancerGenes/Select.action

[14, 28, 50]

289(261)

AGCOH

Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology

http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/

[17]

727(619)

TGDBs

The Tumor Gene Family of Databases

http://www.tumor-gene.org/Oral/oral.html

[16, 51, 52]

314(295)

TSGDB

Tumor suppressor gene database

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~yy1/HTML-TSGDB/Homepage.html

[15]

148(109)

H-list

Candidate cancer genes provided by genome mutation scans

[19, 20, 22, 23]

491(316)

R-list

Candidate cancer genes identified by retroviral insertional mutagenesis screens

http://RTCGD.ncifcrf.gov

http://mutapedia.nki.nl

[25, 26]

646(496)

Total

2105 (1594)