Table 1.
Number of eQTLs and eGenes per cancer type
Cancer type | Acronym | Sample size | eQTL count | eGene count |
Adrenocortical carcinoma | ACC | 49 | 5 | 5 |
Bladder urothelial carcinoma | BLCA | 151 | 958 | 808 |
Breast invasive carcinoma | BRCA | 799 | 14,089 | 8,474 |
Cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical adenocarcinoma | CESC | 118 | 698 | 604 |
Colon adenocarcinoma | COAD | 183 | 3,351 | 2,510 |
Glioblastoma multiforme | GBM | 135 | 2,295 | 1,776 |
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma | HNSC | 364 | 6,361 | 4,314 |
Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma | KIRC | 61 | 239 | 228 |
Kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma | KIRP | 102 | 1,085 | 940 |
Acute myeloid leukemia | LAML | 122 | 2,714 | 2,118 |
Brain lower grade glioma | LGG | 255 | 8,273 | 5,531 |
Liver hepatocellular carcinoma | LIHC | 85 | 328 | 298 |
Lung adenocarcinoma | LUAD | 361 | 6,545 | 4,265 |
Lung squamous cell carcinoma | LUSC | 264 | 3,349 | 2,313 |
Ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma | OV | 318 | 3,882 | 2,656 |
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma | PAAD | 46 | 74 | 73 |
Prostate adenocarcinoma | PRAD | 209 | 8,166 | 5,628 |
Rectum adenocarcinoma | READ | 73 | 391 | 355 |
Sarcoma | SARC | 90 | 308 | 277 |
Skin cutaneous melanoma | SKCM | 73 | 155 | 144 |
Stomach adenocarcinoma | STAD | 234 | 2,710 | 1,933 |
Thyroid carcinoma | THCA | 366 | 16,737 | 10,153 |
Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma | UCEC | 336 | 4,315 | 3,050 |
Uterine carcinosarcoma | UCS | 46 | 8 | 8 |