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Table 3 Description of the five publicly available data sets used for meta-analysis

From: A gene signature in histologically normal surgical margins is predictive of oral carcinoma recurrence

Public Data Set Reference and Accession ID

Sample Size

Array Platform

Toruner et al. 2004

GDS1584

16 oral carcinoma and 4 adjacent normal tissues from 16 patients

Human Genome U133A Plus 2.0 (Affymetrix)

Ye et al. 2008

GSE9844

26 oral carcinoma samples and 12 adjacent normal tissues from 26 patients

Human Genome U133A Plus 2.0 (Affymetrix)

Kuriakose et al. 2004

GDS2520

22 head and neck carcinomas and 22 adjacent normal tissues from 22 patients

Human Genome U95A (Affymetrix)

Sticht et al. 2008

GSE10121

35 oral carcinoma samples from 35 patients and 6 normal oral tissues from healthy individuals

Human Oligo Set 4.0 (Operon)

Pyeon et al., 2007

GSE6791

42 head and neck carcinoma samples from 42 patients and 14 normal oral tissues from healthy individuals

Human Genome U133A Plus 2.0 (Affymetrix)