METcancer {MethylMix}R Documentation

DNA methylation data from cancer tissue from glioblastoma patients from the TCGA project

Description

Cancer Gene expression data of glioblastoma patients from the TCGA project. A set of 14 genes that have been shown in the literature to be involved in differential methylation in glioblastoma were selected as an example to try out MethylMix.

Usage

data(METcancer)

Format

A numeric matrix with 14 rows (genes) and 251 columns (samples).

References

Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network. Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways. Nature. 2008 Oct 23; 455(7216):1061-8. doi: 10.1038/nature07385. Epub 2008 Sep 4. Erratum in: Nature. 2013 Feb 28;494(7438):506. PubMed PMID: 18772890; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2671642.

See Also

TCGA: The Cancer Genome Atlas: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/


[Package MethylMix version 2.22.0 Index]