Table 2

Overlap between our gene lists and the lists from other studies &/or sources

Martin et al [18]

Multiple cancer gene list **

SA Bioscience Cancer Panel

SA Bioscience Breast Cancer panel

Baasiri et al. (BCGD) [16]

n = 21

n = 184

n = 83

n = 83

n = 51

List from combined analysis, n = 1319

overlap

10

18

8

10

4

% correct*

80.23

88.07

80.30

82.15

76.38

List from analysiss of FF samples, n = 1275

overlap

2

13

5

2

5

% correct*

75.64

79.80

76.92

75.64

83.65

List from analysiss of FFPE samples, n = 966

overlap

7

10

8

9

1

% correct*

84.61

88.46

88.46

80.76

76.92

*All the genes in the external list were used in a model to predict the tissue type (tumor or normal) in our data set to calculate the % correct rate. For all models, nearest centroid with equal prior probability was used as classification method. ** Gene lists are combined from Su et al [20], Yu et al [21] and Ramaswami et al.[19]

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