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. 2017 May 12;5:2124. Originally published 2016 Aug 31. [Version 3] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.9417.3

Table 1. SVM gene expression signature performance on METABRIC patients.

Patient
treatment
# of patients Agent:
final gene
signature (C
and sigma)
Accuracy (%) Precision F-Measure MCC 1 AUC 2
Both CT
and HT 3
84 Paclitaxel: ABCC1, ABCC10, BAD,
BIRC5, FN1, GBP1, MAPT, SLCO1B3,
TMEM243, TUBB3, TUBB4B
(C=10000, σ=10)
78.6 0.787 0.782 0.559 0.814
Tamoxifen: ABCC2, ALB, CCNA2,
E2F7, FLAD1, FMO1, NCOA2, NR1I2,
PIAS4, SULT1E1 (C=100000, σ=100)
76.2 0.761 0.760 0.510 0.701
Methotrexate: ABCC2, ABCG2,
CDK2, DHFRL1 (C=10, σ=1)
71.4 0.712 0.711 0.410 0.766
Epirubicin : ABCB1, CDA, CYP1B1,
ERBB3, ERCC1, MTHFR, PON1,
SEMA4D, TFDP2 (C=1000, σ=10)
72.6 0.725 0.723 0.434 0.686
Doxorubicin: ABCC2, ABCD3, CBR1,
FTH1, GPX1, NCF4, RAC2, TXNRD1
(C=100000, σ=100)
75.0 0.749 0.750 0.488 0.701
5-Fluorouracil: ABCB1, ABCC3,
MTHFR, TP53 (C=10000, σ=100)
71.4 0.714 0.714 0.417 0.718
CT and/or
HT 3, 4, 5, 6
735 Paclitaxel: BAD, BCAP29, BCL2,
BMF, CNGA3, CYP2C8, CYP3A4,
FGF2, FN1, NFKB2, NR1I2, OPRK1,
SLCO1B3, TLR6, TUBB1, TUBB3,
TUBB4A, TUBB4B, TWIST1
(C=10000, σ=100)
66.1 0.652 0.643 0.287 0.660
Deceased
only 2, 6, 7
(CT and/or
HT)
327 Paclitaxel: ABCB11, BAD, BBC3,
BCL2, BCL2L1, BIRC5, CYP2C8,
FGF2, FN1, GBP1, MAPT, NFKB2,
OPRK1, SLCO1B3, TMEM243
(C=100, σ=10)
75.3 0.752 0.752 0.505 0.763
No
treatment 3
304 Paclitaxel: ABCB1, ABCB11, BBC3,
BCL2L1, BMF, CYP3A4, FGF2,
GBP1, MAP4, MAPT, NR1I2, OPRK1,
SLCO1B3, TUBB4A, TUBB4B,
TWIST2 (C=100, σ=10)
73.4 0.734 0.733 0.467 0.769

Initial gene sets preceding feature selection: Paclitaxel - ABCB1, ABCB11, ABCC1, ABCC10, BAD, BBC3, BCAP29, BCL2, BCL2L1, BIRC5, BMF, CNGA3, CYP2C8, CYP3A4, FGF2, FN1, GBP1, MAP2, MAP4, MAPT, NFKB2, NR1I2, OPRK1, SLCO1B3, TLR6, TUBB1, TWIST1. Tamoxifen - ABCB1, ABCC2, ALB, C10ORF11, CCNA2, CYP3A4, E2F7, F5, FLAD1, FMO1, IGF1, IGFBP3, IRS2, NCOA2, NR1H4, NR1I2, PIAS4, PPARA, PROC, RXRA, SMARCD3, SULT1B1, SULT1E1, SULT2A1. Methotrexate - ABCB1, ABCC2, ABCG2, CDK18, CDK2, CDK6, CDK8, CENPA, DHFRL1. Epirubicin - ABCB1, CDA, CYP1B1, ERBB3, ERCC1, GSTP1, MTHFR, NOS3, ODC1, PON1, RAD50, SEMA4D, TFDP2. Doxorubicin - ABCB1, ABCC2, ABCD3, AKR1B1, AKR1C1, CBR1, CYBA, FTH1, FTL, GPX1, MT2A, NCF4, RAC2, SLC22A16, TXNRD1. 5-Fluorouracil - ABCB1, ABCC3, CFLAR, IL6, MTHFR, TP53, UCK2. 1MCC: Matthews Correlation Coefficient. 2AUC: Area under receiver operating curve. 3 Surviving patients; 4 Analysis included patients in the METABRIC ‘discovery’ dataset only; 5 SVMs tested with 9 fold cross-validation, all others tested with leave-one-out cross-validation; 6 Includes all patients treated with HT,CT, combination CT/HT, either with or without combination radiotherapy; 7 Median time after treatment until death (> 4.4 years) was used to distinguish favorable outcome, ie. sensitivity to therapy.