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Table 3 Estimation of the mixture proportion (m) in the bladder and the prostate groups

From: A Hidden Markov Model to estimate population mixture and allelic copy-numbers in cancers using Affymetrix SNP arrays

   

M < 1

Cancer type

Number of samples

Number of samples with m = 1

Average

Stdev

Bladder

18

12

0.793

0.193

Prostate

25

21

0.93

0.055

  1. For all bladder and prostate tumour samples, the mixture proportion was estimated. The averages and standard deviations are only calculated for the tumour samples whose estimates of mixture proportion, m, were not 1 (100% cancer cells).