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A stroma-related gene signature predicts sensitivity to epirubicin-containing neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer.

GSE4779 Homo sapiens (human) Expression microarray 102 samples Submitted 2008/12/19 Platform GPL1352
At a glance

Expression microarray · human · 102 samples

What it is
Expression microarrayGene activity read on a chip (the older technology that RNA-seq replaced).
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
Breast cancerThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
102 samples
Data you can get
A processed expression table (series matrix) and the array files, from NCBI.
Summary (written by the submitters)
The goal of the study was to identify a gene expression signature capable of predicting a pathological complete response following neoadjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy of breast cancer. The samples were taken from the FEC arm (5-fluorouracil, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide) of the EORTC 10994 trial. EORTC 10994 is a phase III clinical trial comparing FEC with ET (epirubicin, docetaxel) in patients with large operable, locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer (www.eortc.be).
Read the full summary ↓
Frozen biopsies were taken at randomisation. RNA was extracted from 100um thickness of 14G core needle biopsies. Adjacent sections were tested by H&E to confirm >20% tumour cell content. 200 ng total RNA per chip was amplified using the Affymetrix small sample protocol (IVT then Enzo). 102 tumours were tested on Affymetrix X3P chips. Single biopsies were tested per tumour. The CEL files were quantile normalised using rma. The clinical response measure was pathological complete response (pCR, disappearance of the tumour after chemotherapy with at most scattered invasive cells detected by histology).
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Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

Series matrix ↓
2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need.

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3 · The original raw files

Whole study · RAW.tar

Everything the authors deposited as one archive (GSE4779_RAW.tar), including the raw array or instrument files. Can be large; the picker in step 2 takes just the samples you need.

Whole study · RAW.tar ↓

What the files usually look like: For arrays the series matrix is normally the normalised expression table you want; the raw array files (CEL and similar) are in the RAW.tar.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA95553. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

NCBI GEO page ↗ Paper (PMID 19122658) ↗
Study design
A cohort of 102 individual samples

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How we read this: Sample titles run HB01 … HB102 and carry no group information.

Samples in this study

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