Table 1.

Characteristics of the microarray datasets from GEO database

Accession/ID	PMID	CRPC group	Control group
GSE8702	18302219 (D'Antonio et al., 2008)	Androgen deprived for 11 or 12 months	Androgen deprived for three weeks or one month
GSE21887	20145136 (Terada et al., 2010)	Castration resistance in xenograft mice	Androgen-dependent xenograft mice
GSE33316	22108827 (Sun et al., 2012)	Androgen-deprived LuCaP35 xenografts in castrated mice	LuCaP35 xenografts from non-treated mice

GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus; PMID: PubMed unique identifier; CRPC: castration-resistant prostate cancer