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Prediction of the outcome of preoperative chemotherapy in breast cancer using DNA probes that provide information on both complete and incomplete responses

René Natowicz1 email, Roberto Incitti2 email, Euler Guimarães Horta1,3 email, Benoît Charles1 email, Philippe Guinot1 email, Kai Yan4 email, Charles Coutant5 email, Fabrice Andre6 email, Lajos Pusztai4 email and Roman Rouzier5,7 email

University of Paris – Est. ESIEE-Paris, Computer Sciences Department. Cité Descartes BP. 99, 93162 Noisy-le-Grand, France

Université Paris 12, Faculté de Médecine, Institut Mondor de Médecine Moléculaire (IFR10), Créteil, F-94000, France

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Departamento de Engenharia Eletronica, Campus da UFMG (Pampulha), Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Unit 1354, PO Box 301439, Houston, Texas, USA

AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon, Department of Gynecology, 4 rue de la Chine, F-75020 Paris, France

Institut Gustave Roussy, Breast Cancer Unit, 39 rue Desmoulins, 94805 Villejuif, Cedex, France

UPMC Univ Paris 06, UPRES EA 4053, F-75005, Paris, France

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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:149doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-149

Published: 15 March 2008

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Additional file 1:

Figure – Expression levels of a PCR probe set, probe s = 213033_s_at of gene NFIB, for the 82 cases of the learning set. The data provided represent a PCR probe set.

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Figure – Expression levels of a NoPCR probe set, probe s = s = 203928_x_at of gene MAPT, for the 82 cases of the learning set. The data provided represent a NoPCR probe set.

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Figure – Discriminations of the two DLDA classifiers (30 probes with the highest valuation functions, and 30 probe sets showing the highest p-values (t-test)) in the independent test set 3. The data provided represent the performance metrics obtained in test set 3.

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Appendix – P-value of the predictors. The data provide the method used to calculate the p-values of the 27, 29, and 30 probe set predictors based on the null hypothesis of a predictor composed of random probe sets.

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Table – Performance metrics of a multigene majority vote predictor (weighted valuation functions) for α ∈ {0, 0.1,...,1.0}. The data provided represent a family of valuation functions, vα(s), parameterized by the real number alpha, α ∈ [0, 1].

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Table – Ratios of pcr to nopcr predictions for the weighted valuation functions; P(α), N(α): total numbers of pcr and nopcr predictions of the top 30 probes in the ranking vα(s); R(α) = P(α)/N(α). The data provided represent the results obtained by parameterization of the valuation function by the real number alpha, α ∈ [0, 1].

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Figure – Sets top 30 probes for the weighted valuation functions. Underlined probes: mono-informative probes (either PCR or NoPCR probes). The data provided represent the top 30 probes obtained by parameterization of the valuation function by the real number alpha, α ∈ [0, 1].

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Table – Patients characteristics. The data provided give the patient characteristics for the 4 cohorts of the study.

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