simone (version 1.0-4)

cancer: Microarray data set for breast cancer

Description

This gene expression data set is freely available, coming from the Hess et al's paper. It concerns one hundred thirty-three patients with stage I--III breast cancer. Patients were treated with chemotherapy prior to surgery. Patient response to the treatment can be classified as either a pathologic complete response (pCR) or residual disease (not-pCR). Hess et al developed and tested a reliable multigene predictor for treatment response on this data set, composed by a set of 26 genes having a high predictive value.

The dataset splits into 2 parts (pCR and not pCR), on which network inference algorithms should be applied independently or in the multitask framework: only individuals from the same classes should be consider as independent and identically distributed.

Usage

data(cancer)

Format

A list named cancer comprising two objects:

expr

a data.frame with 26 columns and 133 rows. The \(n\)th row gives the expression levels of the 26 identified genes for the \(n\)th patient. The columns are named according to the genes.

status

a factor of size 133 with 2 levels ("pcr" and "not"), describing the status of the patient.

References

K.R. Hess, K. Anderson, W.F. Symmans, V. Valero, N. Ibrahim, J.A. Mejia, D. Booser, R.L. Theriault, U. Buzdar, P.J. Dempsey, R. Rouzier, N. Sneige, J.S. Ross, T. Vidaurre, H.L. Gomez, G.N. Hortobagyi, and L. Pustzai (2006). Pharmacogenomic predictor of sensitivity to preoperative chemotherapy with Paclitaxel and Fluorouracil, Doxorubicin, and Cyclophosphamide in breast cancer, Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 24(26), pp. 4236--4244.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## load the breast cancer data set
data(cancer)
attach(cancer)

## histogram of gene expression levels
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
hist(as.matrix(expr[status == "pcr",]), main="pCR")
hist(as.matrix(expr[status == "not",]), main="not pCR")

## mean of gene expression levels for pCR and not-pCR
colMeans( expr[ which( status=="not"), ] )
colMeans( expr[ which( status=="pcr"), ] )
detach(cancer)
# }