Comparison of rectal patient data separated by their event of developing distant metastasis [RNA-Seq]

The rectal cancer patient data set consists of 10 patients from a clinical study at the Surgery department of the University Medical Center Göttingen collected over a longer time. Patients were chosen based on the follow-up time and development of a distant metastasis. First a balanced sample size of five versus five patients with and without a metastatic event was chosen. This needed to be changed to six versus four. Two conditions of rectal cancer patient data separates by the event of distant metastasis: 1. good prognosis, no event (4 samples), 2. bad prognosis, event (6 samples) Single-end sequencing on a Illumina HiSeq 200 machine with the standard total_RNA protocol with 50 base pairs read length was used Two conditions of rectal cancer patient data separates by the event of distant metastasis: 1. good prognosis, no event (4 samples), 2. bad prognosis, event (6 samples) ** Raw data not provided due to patient privacy concerns **