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Table 4 Summary of deduced clonal origins of ipsilateral and contralateral tumour pairs using (a) a Bayesian inference approach and (b) an empirical approach

From: Assessment of DNA methylation profiling and copy number variation as indications of clonal relationship in ipsilateral and contralateral breast cancers to distinguish recurrent breast cancer from a second primary tumour

 

Recurrent

De novo

Total

a

 Ipsilateral

11 (69 %)

5 (31 %)

16 (100 %)

 Contralateral

2 (15 %)

11 (85 %)

13 (100 %)

b

 Ipsilateral

6 (38 %)

10 (62 %)

16 (100 %)

 Contralateral

1 (8 %)

12 (92 %)

13 (100 %)