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. 2014 Jun 2;9(6):e98229. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098229

Table 7. Prognostic gene expression signatures selected for pathway enrichment analysis.

Signaturename Author Year ofpublication No. ofgenes Study design Outcome
Mammaprint Van’t Veeret al. [14] 2002 70 78 patients with sporadic primary breast tumors:<5 cm, N0, age <55 years; 34 patients developeddistant metastasis <5 years vs. 44 patients:disease-free >5 years Prognosis for distantmetastasis
Oncotype DX Paik et al. [15] 2004 21 668 tumors from patients: N0 and ER+,treated with tamoxifen Prognosis for distantrecurrence/overall survival
MapQuant Sotirou et al. [16] 2006 97 64 samples: ER+, grade 1 vs. grade 3 Prognosis for recurrence/relapse-free survival
Gene Search Wang et al.[17] 2005 76 115 tumors: all N0; 80 samples ER+,35 ER-, analyzed separately fordistant tumor recurrence,then combined Prognosis for distanttumor recurrence
Wound responsesignature Chang et al. [18] 2004 512 50 fibroblast culturesfrom 10anatomic sites: response offibroblast to serum exposure Prognosis formetastasis/survival
Lung metastasissignature Minn et al. [19] 2005 54 Comparison of highly and weaklylung-metastatic cell populationsderived from the breast cancercell line MDA-MB-231 Prognosis for lungmetastasis
Brain metastasissignature Bos et al. [20] 2009 243 Comparison of cell lines withdifferent metastatic potentialsderived from the breast cancercell lines MDA-MB-231 and CN34 Prognosis for brainmetastasis
Bone metastasissignature Kang et al. [21] 2003 102 MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line+12 derivative subpopulations withdifferent metastatic potentials Prognosis for bonemetastasis
Invasivenesssignature Liu et al. [22] 2007 186 CD44+CD24−/low breast cancer cellswith high tumorgenic capacity vs. cellsof normal breast epithelium Prognosis for overall/metastasis-free survival
General metastasissignature Ramaswamyet al. [23] 2003 128 64 primary adenocarcinomas of diverseorigin (lung, breast, prostate,colorectal, uterus, ovary) vs. 12unmatched adenocarcinoma metastasis Metastatic potential,clinical outcome
Meta genesignature Györffyet al. [24] 2009 376 Meta-analysis of 20 published genesignatures on 7 breast cancermicroarray data sets (n = 1079) Prognosis forrelapse-free survival
374 GeneSet/consensus genes Lausset al. [25] 2008 374 Meta-analysis of 44 published genesignatures on 8 breastcancer microarray datasets (n = 1067) Prognosis forsurvival