Table 1

Variance Structure of the 9 datasets

Dataset
Reference
Classes
Pooled Variance

DLBCL
Shipp et al., 2002
Follicular or Germinal
0.147
Prostate
Singh et al., 2002
Prostate or non-Prostate
0.182
Colon
Alon et al., 1999
Tumour or Normal
0.528
Leukaemia
Golub et al., 1999
ALL or AML
0.458
Myeloma
Tian et al., 2003
Presence or Absence of focal lesions of bone
0.841
ALL.1
Chiaretti et al., 2004
B-cell or T-cell origin
0.204
ALL.2
Chiaretti et al., 2004
With or without MDR
0.221
ALL.3
Chiaretti et al., 2004
Did or did not relapse
0.178
ALL.4
Chiaretti et al., 2004
With or without t(9;22) chromosome translocation
0.159

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