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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Future Oncol. 2008 Oct;4(5):629–636. doi: 10.2217/14796694.4.5.629

Figure 2. Molecular classification of uveal melanomas based on transcriptomic and chromosomal features.

Figure 2

(A) Unsupervised principal component analysis, showing natural clustering of uveal melanomas into four groups according to gene-expression profile and status of chromosomes 3, 6p and 8p. Class 1A – minimal aneuploidy (blue spheres); class 1B – 6p gain (green spheres); class 2A – monosomy 3 (red spheres) and class 2B – monosomy 3 and 8p loss (gray spheres). (B) Kaplan–Meier survival analysis showing that molecular classification accurately predicts metastatic death. PCA: Principle component analysis.