Research Article

Comparison of Merging and Meta-Analysis as Alternative Approaches for Integrative Gene Expression Analysis

Table 1

List of six publicly available lung cancer microarray data sets used in this application.

Data set Platform No. of genes No. of samples (control/cancer) Reference

GSE10072 GPL96 12718 107 (49/58) Landi et al. [13]
GSE7670 GPL96 12718 66 (27/27) Su et al. [14]
GSE31547 GPL96 12718 50 (20/30)
GSE19804 GPL570 19798 120 (60/60) Lu et al. [15]
GSE19188 GPL570 19798 156 (65/91) Hou et al. [16]
GSE18842 GPL570 19798 91 (45/46) Sanchez-Palencia et al. [17]

Total 590 (312/266)