Table 1.

Datasets employed in this study

Dataset	Number of samples	Technology/Platform	Reference
TCGA-COAD	COAD = 459; Normal = 41	RNA sequence	[7]
TCGA-BLCA	BLCA = 408; Normal = 19	RNA sequence	[7]
GSE71187	COAD = 46; Normal = 12	GPL6480, Agilent-014850 Whole Human Genome Microarray 4x44K G4112F	[39]
GSE13507	Primary bladder cancer = 165; Normal bladder mucosa = 9	GPL6102, Illumina human-6 v2.0 expression beadchip	[40]