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An array CGH based genomic instability index (G2I) is predictive of clinical outcome in breast cancer and reveals a subset of tumors without lymph node involvement but with poor prognosis

Françoise Bonnet1,2, Mickael Guedj3, Natalie Jones1, Sana Sfar1, Véronique Brouste4, Nabila Elarouci3, Guillaume Banneau1, Béatrice Orsetti5, Charlotte Primois2, Christine Tunon de Lara6, Marc Debled7, Isabelle de Mascarel8, Charles Theillet5, Nicolas Sévenet1,2, Aurélien de Reynies3, Gaëtan MacGrogan1,8 and Michel Longy1,2,9*

1 Inserm U 916 Institut Bergonié, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

2 Cancer Genetics Unit, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France

3 «Cartes d’Identité des Tumeurs »(CIT) program, Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Paris, France

4 Clinical and Epidemiological Research Unit, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France

5 Inserm U 896, IRCM – Centre Val d’Aurelle – Paul Lamarque, Montpellier, France

6 Surgery Department, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France

7 Medical Oncology Department, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France

8 Pathology Department, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France

9 Inserm U916, Institut Bergonié, 229 Cours de l’Argonne, Bordeaux cedex, 33076, France

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BMC Medical Genomics 2012, 5:54 doi:10.1186/1755-8794-5-54

Published: 27 November 2012

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Supplementary tables. File containing six supplementary tables; samples annotations for the 135 studied tumors; incidence of the most frequent genomic gains and losses with respect to array-CGH clusters of tumors; description of genomic regions of amplification; description of recurrently gained and lost genomic regions in G2I-3 tumors; list of probe sets defining the transcriptomic signature of the G2I-3 tumors; Gene Ontology enrichment for the G2I-3 expression signature.

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Supplementary methods. File containing methodological details.

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G2I_R tool. File containing the R script used to generate the G2I with the tables of data and the instructions useful to reproduce the results.

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Supplementary figures. File containing three supplementary figures; scatter plot of the 135 tumors according to the G2I and axillary lymph node involvement; frequency plot of genomic copy number variation in tumors belonging to the 3 classes of G2I; Hierarchical clustering showing the differential expression of 300 probe sets between G2I-3 and G2I-2 tumors. (PDF 279 kb)

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