expression {GSALightning} | R Documentation

## Breast Cancer Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)

### Description

This is a subset of the breast cancer expression data set obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) consortium and processed by the Pan-Cancer project group. The data was downloaded originally using the ELMER Bioconductor package. The gene names have been converted to gene symbols in this data.

### Usage

    data("expression")

### Value

A matrix with 909 genes and 1218 subjects, of which 114 are controls.

### References

The Cancer Genome Atlas (2012) Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer. Nature 487:330-337.

Weinstein, John N., et al. "The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project." Nature genetics 45.10 (2013): 1113-1120.

Yao, L., et al. "Inferring regulatory element landscapes and transcription factor networks from cancer methylomes." Genome biology 16.1 (2015): 105-105.

### Examples

    data(expression)
    str(expression)

[Package GSALightning version 1.16.0 Index]