Table 2.

Overlap between our gene lists and the lists from other studies &/or sources

		Martin et al [18]	Multiple cancer gene list **	SA Bioscience Cancer Panel	SA Bioscience Breast Cancer panel	Baasiri et al. (BCGD) [16]
		n = 21	n = 184	n = 83	n = 83	n = 51
List from combined analysis, n = 1319	overlap	10	18	8	10	4
	% correct*	80.23	88.07	80.30	82.15	76.38
List from analysiss of FF samples, n = 1275	overlap	2	13	5	2	5
	% correct*	75.64	79.80	76.92	75.64	83.65
List from analysiss of FFPE samples, n = 966	overlap	7	10	8	9	1
	% correct*	84.61	88.46	88.46	80.76	76.92

*All the genes in the external list were used in a model to predict the tissue type (tumor or normal) in our data set to calculate the % correct rate. For all models, nearest centroid with equal prior probability was used as classification method. ** Gene lists are combined from Su et al [20], Yu et al [21] and Ramaswami et al.[19]