Building prognostic models for breast cancer patients using clinical variables and hundreds of gene expression signatures

BMC Medical Genomics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fan, Cheng ^a   Prat, Aleix ^a,b   Parker, Joel S ^a,b   Liu, Yufeng ^a,c   Carey, Lisa A ^b   Troester, Melissa A ^d   Perou, Charles M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 78650958088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17558794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-8794-4-3     Document Type: Article

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