Very Important Pool (VIP) genes – an application for microarray-based molecular signatures

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Nine microarray datasets used in the study.

Name	Cancer type	Prediction task	Sample size	Number of events	Number of genes	Reference
Beer	Lung adenocarcinoma	Survival	86	24	6532	[48]
Bhattacharjee	Lung adenocarcinoma	4-year survival	62	31	5403	[49]
Chen	Hepatocellular carcinoma	Tumors	156	82	3964	[50]
Pomeroy	Medulloblastoma	Medulloblastoma survival	60	21	7129	[52]
Rosenwald	Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	Survival	240	138	7399	[53]
Shipp	Diffuse large b-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)	Cured	58	32	6817	[54]
Singh	Prostate cancer	Tumors	102	52	12600	[55]
Yeoh	Acute lymphocytic leukaemia	Relapse-free survival	233	32	12236	[56]
van't Veer	Breast cancer	5-year metastasis-free survival	97	46	4948	[57]

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