Epigenetic array data of saliva samples in individiduals with esophageal cancer with controls

We took saliva samples from 89 people with oesophageal cancer (plus 9 with high grade dysplasia, also labelled here as cancer) and 167 controls. We took replicate samples on 6 cancer samples and 4 controls to assess reproducibility. The cancer groups comprise people with invasive adenocarcinoma (61 and also 6 replicates), 28 people with intramucosal adenocarcinoma, 9 people with high-grade dysplasia arising in Barrett's esophagus, 52 patients with non-dysplastic Barrett's esophagus, 42 people with no positive diagnosis after endoscopy (ie no Barrett's, + 1 replicate), and 73 self-reported healthy volunteers (with 3 duplicates) The principle design was a two group case-control study