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. 2013 May 21;8(5):e64268. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064268

Table 4. Validation of gene signatures in independent datasets.

No. of samples Overlapping genes Sensitivity (TP) Specificity (TN) Accuracya p-valueb
Basal BRCA1 signature
NKI dataset 16 vs. 18 76/110 0.81 (13) 0.83 (15) 0.82 3.9×10−4
Jönsson dataset 13 vs. 34 69/110 0.93 (12) 0.82 (28) 0.87 3.9×10−6
LumB BRCA2 signature
Jönsson dataset 21 vs. 68 77/100 0.90 (19) 0.83 (57) 0.87 7.3×10−10

The basal BRCA1 signature and lumB BRCA2 signature was validated in two public available datasets. Classification performances were assessed by leave-one-out cross-validation. TP, true positive; TN, true negative.

a

Mean balanced accuracy.

b

Fisher's exact test.