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Prognostic Impact of Array-based Genomic Profiles in Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer

Ana Carneiro1,2*, Anna Isinger1, Anna Karlsson1, Jan Johansson3, Göran Jönsson1, Pär-Ola Bendahl1, Dan Falkenback4, Britta Halvarsson5 and Mef Nilbert1,6

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, 221 85 Lund, Sweden

2 Department of Clinical Oncology, Portuguese Institute of Oncology, 1099-023 Lisbon, Portugal

3 Department of Surgery, University Hospital, 221 85 Lund, Sweden

4 Department of Surgery, Helsingborg Hospital, 251 87 Helsingborg, Sweden

5 Department of Pathology, Helsingborg Hospital, 251 87 Helsingborg, Sweden

6 Department of Clinical Sciences, Copenhagen University and Clinical Research Unit, Hvidovre Hospital, 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark

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BMC Cancer 2008, 8:98 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-98

Published: 11 April 2008

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Additional file 1:

Clinicopathologic variables of tumors and survival of patients of the sample set. Table listing the clinicopathologic variables of tumors and survival of patients of the sample set analyzed in this study.

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Number of gains and losses by differentiation. Boxplot of the number of gained and lost clones according to tumor differentiation.

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Number of gains and losses by tumor stage. Boxplot of the number of gained and lost clones according to tumor stage.

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Copy number alterations, listed in decrescent prevalence order, in relation to tumor stage. Table listing the most frequent copy number alterations, sorted in decreasing order, in relation to tumor stage. Columns give the cytoband, start reporter, end reporter, size (Mbp), frequency of the change and candidate genes in the region.

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Chi2 test significant regions associated with positive lymph nodes (P < 0.05). Table listing the regions of aberrations that showed a significant statistical (P < 0.05) association with positive lymph nodes. Given are cytoband, start reporter, end reporter, size (Mbp) and the frequency across patients with positive lymph nodes and patients with negative lymph nodes. P-values were computed using Chi2 test.

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Chi2 test significant regions associated with metastasis at diagnosis (P < 0.05). Table listing the regions of aberrations that showed a significant statistical (P < 0.05) association with metastasis at diagnosis. Given are cytoband, start reporter, end reporter, size (Mbp) and the frequency across patients with metastasis at diagnosis and patients without metastasis at diagnosis. P-values were computed using Chi2 test.

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Regions correlated to prognosis identified by Cox analysis. Table listing the regions of aberrations significantly correlated (P < 0.05) to prognosis in univariate Cox analysis. Cytoband, start reporter, end reporter and size (Mbp) of the aberrant region are given.

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