From: Marmal-aid - a database for Infinium HumanMethylation450
Column name | Description |
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ID | ID used to identify sample. If from GEO this is the GEO accession number |
SAMPLE_NAME | A long descriptive name of the sample |
GSE | The GSE number which can be used to a certain whether samples are from the same experiment. |
LINEAGE | The lineage of the tissue |
TISSUE | Main tissue type E g. Blood, Brain, Liver, Kidney |
TISSUE_SUBTYPE | Further sub categorisation of the tissue E g. for Blood this may be CD19, CD4 etc |
TRANSFORMED | If a transformed cell line the name of the line is given in this column |
DISEASE | Indication of the disease state of the sample. NA here means no information was recorded and is most likely healthy. |
DISEASE_SUBTYPE | A further charaterisation of the disease state E g. if the DISEASE column contains Cancer then this column will indicate what type |
SEX | The sex of the sample if given as taken from the annotation file |
SEX_PRED | The prediction of the sex of the sample using autosomal probes |
AGE | The age of the sample if given. |
ADDITIONAL | Any additional information that could not be described in the other columns. |