expression: Breast Cancer Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)

In billyhw/GSALightning: Fast Permutation-based Gene Set Analysis

Description

This is a breast cancer expression data set obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) consortium and processed by the Pan-Cancer project group. The data was downloaded originally using the ELMER Bioconductor package. The gene names have been converted to gene symbols in this data.

Usage

data("expression")

Format

A matrix with 20299 genes and 1218 subjects, of which 114 are controls.

References

The Cancer Genome Atlas (2012) Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer. Nature 487:330-337.

Weinstein, John N., et al. "The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project." Nature genetics 45.10 (2013): 1113-1120.

Yao, L., et al. "Inferring regulatory element landscapes and transcription factor networks from cancer methylomes." Genome biology 16.1 (2015): 105-105.

Examples

data(expression)
str(expression)

billyhw/GSALightning documentation built on May 12, 2019, 9:22 p.m.