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. 2010 May 6;3:17. doi: 10.1186/1755-8794-3-17

Table 3.

Prediction of environmental chemicals associated with lung cancer samples (GSE10072).

Chemical Predicted Hypergeometric P-value Rank (percentile) q-value Relevant genes in set (number of references) Citations
Doxorubicin 1 × 10-6 16 (99) 4 × 10-4 CASP3(60), ABCB1(28), BAX(26), BCL2 (23) [54]

Sodium arsenite 8 × 10-6 20 (98) 4 × 10-4 JUN(13), NQ01(6), EGR1(6) [55-57]

Vanadium pentoxide 1 × 10-5 24 (98) 6 × 10-4 HBEGF(3), CDK7(1), CDKN1B (1), CDKN1C(1) [58]

Dimethylnitrosamine 6 × 10-5 27 (98) 7 × 10-4 TGFB1(23), TIMP1(15), PCNA(6) [31]

Indomethacin 2 × 10-4 34 (97) 0.002 BIRC5(3), CDKN1B(2), MMP9(2) [59-61]

2-Acetylaminofluorene 3 × 10-4 36 (97) 0.003 ABCB1(4), ABCG2(4), KRT19(2) [62]

Asbestos, Serpentine 4 × 10-4 39 (97) 0.004 IL6(2), MMP9(2), MMP12(2), PDGFB(2) [63]

Shown in the table are a subset of the highly ranked chemicals (p < 0.001) that were predicted to have association with lung cancer gene expression (non-smokers) and had evidence of association with the MeSH term "Lung Neoplasms". Columns have similar definitions as Table 2.