Table 1.

The genome-wide expression profiles of CRC patients used in this study

Datasets	#GEO	Samples
TCGA-COAD	GDC	478 cancer and 41 normal samples
TCGA-READ	GDC	166 cancer and 10 normal samples
Reumers et al.	GSE117606	65 normal, 59 adenoma and 74 tumors
Kim et al.	GSE50760	18 normal, 18 tumor and 18 metastasis patients
Sheffer et al.	GSE41258	54 normal, 186 tumor, 47 liver and 20 lung metastasis patients
Marra et al.	GSE8671	32 normal and 32 tumors
Uddin et al.	GSE23878	24 normal and 35 tumors
Skrzypczak et al.	GSE20916	34 normal, 45 adenoma and 36 adenocarcinoma
Matsuyama et al.	GSE18105	17 normal, 17 tumor and 77 laser-capture microdissection patients
Smith et al.	GSE17536	177 patient with overall survival and disease-free survival
Jorissen et al.	GSE14333	226 patients with survival time