ovarian_cancer_methylation: ovarian cancer methylation example from United Kingdom...

Description Usage Format Value Source References

Description

This data set contains DNA methylation level from 1000 DNA methylation loci in 8 randomly selected women with 4 ovarian cancer cases (pre-treatment) and 4 age-matched healthy controls.

Usage

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Format

A matrix containing 1000 rows and 8 columns with each row denoting a methyaltion locus and each column denoting a subject.

Value

The ovarian cancer methylation example data set contains the following information:

IlmnID

Name of DNA methylation loci

case

Ovarian cancer patients

control

Healthy controls

Source

NCBI GEO website with access number GSE19711

References

Teschendorff AE, Menon U, Gentry-Maharaj A, Ramus SJ et al. Age-dependent DNA methylation of genes that are suppressed in stem cells is a hallmark of cancer. Genome Res 2010 Apr;20(4):440-6. PMID: 20219944


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