Data sets used in this study.

Cervical cells collected three years before half of the patients developed dysplasia (BDy), normal versus dysplastic cervical cells (Dy), normal cervical tissue and invasive cervical cancer (Cvx CA), non-neoplastic breast tissue and breast cancer (BC), normal endometrium and endometrial cancer (EC) and metastatic endometrial cancer (EC (Meta)), ovarian cancer tissue (OvC; The Cancer Genome Atlas, TCGA), colon cancer tissue (ColC), lung cancer tissue (LC) and normal and cancer associated lung fibroblasts (LC Fibro), and white blood cell (WBC) samples from BRCA1 mutation carriers and controls (BRCA1). The number of samples, their distribution in terms of normal and cancer, cell-type, age-range (years) and reference to data access is given. GSE numbers are GEO accessions. NA, not available.