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. 2020 Jul 10;9(7):giaa076. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa076

Table 1:

TCGA cancer types and their sample sizes sorted by size, with the first 16 types used for test

Cancer Full name Dataset size
BRCA Breast adenocarcinoma 867
THCA Thyroid carcinoma 562
HNSC Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma 541
LGG Brain lower grade glioma 541
PRAD Prostate adenocarcinoma 532
LUAD Lung adenocarcinoma 477
SKCM Skin cutaneous melanoma 472
BLCA Bladder urothelial carcinoma 424
LIHC Liver hepatocellular carcinoma 416
LUSC Lung squamous cell carcinoma 378
STAD Stomach adenocarcinoma 371
KIRC Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma 342
CESC Cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical adenocarcinoma 308
COAD Colon carcinoma 297
KIRP Kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma 297
SARC Sarcoma 262
UCEC Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma 172