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. 2014 May 27;110(12):2975–2984. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2014.258

Table 2. Prognostic capacity of gene sets with similar temporal expression profiles in three ovarian cancer data sets (log rank P-values).

Data set Bild et al (2006) Tothill et al (2008)
Data set ID
GSE3149
GSE9891
Microarray platform
Affymetrix U133A
Affymetrix U133 Plus 2
Samples
133
285
Platinum/taxane
 
243/195
Tumour grade (1/2/3/NA) 3/4/125/1 19/97/164/5
End point
 
OS
OS
PFS
Gene set Gene set size      
All OV1002 carboplatin sets
711
0.0473
0.00292
0.000642
All OV1002 carboplatin/taxane sets
3045
0.128
0.00101
2.88E05
All HOX424 carboplatin/taxane sets
510
0.00931
0.000136
0.000268
OV1002 carboplatin set 1 up early
171
0.421
0.315
0.87
OV1002 carboplatin set 2 down/up early
169
0.0406
0.062
0.00216
OV1002 carboplatin set 3 up late
163
0.577
0.112
0.059
OV1002 carboplatin set 4 down late
213
0.789
0.589
0.0935
OV1002 carboplatin/taxane set 1 up early
733
0.0936
0.152
0.463
OV1002 carboplatin/taxane set 2 down early
533
0.0257
0.809
0.0304
OV1002 carboplatin/taxane set 3 up late
958
0.263
0.008
6.48E05
OV1002 carboplatin/taxane set 4 down late
947
0.0288
0.0001
4.71E05
HOX424 carboplatin/taxane set 1 up late
148
0.0285
0.468
0.469
HOX424 carboplatin/taxane set 2 up late
27
0.869
0.065
0.532
HOX424 carboplatin/taxane set 3 down late
119
0.0398
0.0003
0.00126
HOX424 carboplatin/taxane set 4 down late
226
0.000463
0.00009
0.000102
KEGG apoptosis
88
0.00095
0.776
0.423
KEGG oocyte meiosis
114
0.647
0.00654
0.0203
KEGG progesterone-mediated oocyte maturation
87
0.886
0.0114
0.0847
KEGG p53 signalling pathway
69
0.372
0.0139
6.40E−05
KEGG cell cycle
128
0.0453
0.138
0.443
OV1002 carboplatin/taxane cell cycle
51
0.0438
0.00814
0.00301
OV1002 carboplatin/taxane set 1 up early cell cycle
25
0.0272
0.00665
0.00683
KEGG glutathione metabolism
50
0.0259
0.00895
0.726
KEGG neurotrophin signalling pathway
126
0.0282
0.00133
7.54E06
KEGG β-alanine metabolism 22 0.0488 0.0414 0.000998

Abbreviations: KEGG=Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes; NA=not assigned; OS=overall survival; PFS=progression-free survival. Significant P-values (P<0.05) are shown in bold.