Cholesterol synthesis pathway genes in prostate cancer are transcriptionally downregulated when tissue confounding is minimized

Table 1 Data from the seven patient cohorts

Abbreviation	Source	Dataset reference	Article reference	Analysis Platform	Samples	PCa	Normal	Unique genes	HP on all samples
Bertilsson	Array Express	E-MTAB-1041	[27]	Microarray, A-MEXP-2087 - Illumina Human HT-12 WG-DASL	156	116	40	14,149	Yes
Chen	GEO	GSE8218	[21, 28]	Microarray, Affymetrix Human Genome U133A Array	136	65	71	12,497	Yes
Taylor	GEO	GSE21034	[29]	Microarray, Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array	160	131	29	18,294	No
TCGA	TCGA	TCGA	[30]	RNA-Seq, Illumina HiSeq 2000/ Genome Analyzer IIX	549	497	52	20,504	No
Prensner	dbGaP	phs000443. v1.p1	[31]	RNA-Seq, Illumina Genome Analyzer	116	78	38	23,712	No
Sboner	GEO	GSE16560	[35]	Microarray, Human 6 k Transcriptionally Informative Gene Panel for DASL.	281	281	0	6102	No
Erho	GEO	GSE46691	[36]	Exon array, Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array [probe set (exon) version]	545	545	0	17,163	No

Footnote: HP histopathology, GEO gene expression omnibus, TCGA the cancer genome atlas, dbGap the database of genotypes and phenotypes, PCa prostate cancer

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