Survival breast cancer datasets with OS and RFS endpoints.

Gene nb refers to the number of genes. MAS 5.0 refers to Affymetrix Microarray Suite version 5.0 and LOWESS stands for LOcally WEighted Scatter plot Smoothing and RMA for Robust Microarray Analysis, respectively. Adj. stands for adjuvant and chemo for chemotherapy. Merged OS refers to merged data sets with Overall Survival endpoint and Merged RFS refers to the merged data sets with Relapse Free Survival endpoint. The expression values of dual channel data were already -transformed. Among the data sets generated by Affymetrix, the absolute intensity values of GSE3143, GSE2034 and GSE2990 were -transformed for this study as the rest of Affymetrix data sets were already - transformed by the authors.

基因数量（Gene nb）指基因的个数。MAS 5.0指代Affymetrix微阵列套件5.0版（Affymetrix Microarray Suite version 5.0）；LOWESS指代局部加权散点图平滑法（LOcally WEighted Scatter plot Smoothing），RMA则指代稳健微阵列分析（Robust Microarray Analysis）。Adj.指代辅助治疗（adjuvant），chemo指代化疗（chemotherapy）。合并总生存期数据集（Merged OS）指带有总生存期（Overall Survival，OS）终点的合并数据集，合并无复发生存期数据集（Merged RFS）指带有无复发生存期（Relapse Free Survival，RFS）终点的合并数据集。双通道数据的表达值已预先完成-转换处理。在由Affymetrix平台生成的数据集当中，其余Affymetrix数据集均已由原作者完成-转换处理，本研究针对GSE3143、GSE2034与GSE2990的绝对强度值另行完成了-转换。