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. 2016 Oct 30;45(Database issue):D940–D944. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1013

Table 2. Summary of the 16 gene essentiality data sets from 9 human cancers collected in OGEE.

Cancer Data sets Essential genes Uniquely essential genes
breast 1 146 67
Burkitt's lymphoma 2 1897 198
CML 4 3210 1324
colon 2 1394 899
esophageal squamous 1 41 34
GBM 1 21 14
NSCLC 1 28 20
ovarian 2 130 87
pancreatic 2 199 126

‘Essential genes’ (the 3rd column) are genes that are essential in any of the data set(s) of a particular cancer type; ‘Uniquely essential genes’ (the last column) are genes that are subset of ‘Essential genes’ but non-essential in any other collected human data sets. An up-to-date version of this table can be found at http://ogee.medgenius.info/cancer/.