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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 Dec 23;29(2):509–519. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-18-1359

Table 2:

Univariate and multivariate analysis of association between ovarian cancer gene signatures and overall survival (OS) of patients in A) the TCGA dataset or B) the smaller MGH study.

Published gene signature A) HGSOC tumors (TCGA, n=518)b B) MGH Data (n=38)
Study Signature or % stromal content OS b OS, adjust stage b OS, adjust % stroma b OS, adjust % stroma + stage OS, gene expression in microdissected epithelium OS, gene expression in microdissected stroma
AOCS C1 stroma vs. tumora Stromal genes vs. tumor genes 0.0870 0.137 0.2730 0.484 0.2440 0.1800
MGH stroma vs. tumora Tumor-associated stroma vs. tumor 0.0336 0.0544 0.148 0.289 0.555 0.156
MGH tissue- specific genesa Tumor 0.778 0.640 0.996 0.906 0.924 0.718
Tumor-associated stroma 0.0430 0.0732 0.177 0.337 0.540 0.164
Normal or tumor-associated stroma 0.0395 0.0707 0.140 0.294 0.598 0.175
TCGA stromal content Pathologist assessment of % stroma in TCGA samples 0.0979 0.0499 N/A N/A N/A N/A
AOCS (Tothill et al.) C1 0.0175 0.0658 0.0755 0.276 0.343 0.316
PFS 0.0045 0.0195 0.0346 0.148 0.242 0.377
OS 0.0010 0.0068 0.0076 0.0541 0.356 0.105
Bentink et al. Angiogenic vs. non-angiogenic 0.0313 0.115 0.109 0.374 0.552 0.324
Bignotti et al. Metastasis vs. primary 0.0165 0.0921 0.0613 0.311 0.383 0.229
Spentzos et al. Prognosis 0.0118 0.0330 0.0507 0.163 0.608 0.145
Bonome et al. Prognosis 0.0426 0.0571 0.128 0.208 0.366 0.0352
Biade et al. Malignant vs. benign 0.310 0.266 0.587 0.584 0.642 0.101
Konstantinopoulos et al. BRCA-like 0.0167 0.0281 0.0272 0.0386 0.696 0.387

Significance (p < 0.05) is highlighted in bold.

b

Multivariate survival analyses of TCGA data adjusted for percent stromal content and/or stage.