Table 1.

Six gene-expression microarray profiles

Dataset	#Genes	#Samples	Technology
Stroma	18995	13 inflammatory breast cancers (‘ibc’) + 34 non-inflammatory breast cancers (‘non-ibc’)	Oligonucleotide
Breast_1	2000	53 controls + 163 cancers	Oligonucleotide
Prostate	12600	59 controls + 77 cancers	Oligonucleotide
Glioma	12625	28 glioblastomas + 22 anaplastic oligodendrogliomas	Oligonucleotide
HCC	7129	20 early intrahepatic recurrence + 40 non-early intrahepatic recurrence	Oligonucleotide
Breast_2	24188	46 samples with distant metastasis within 5 year + 51 samples remain disease-free within 5 years	cDNA