Identification of common signatures in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer using gene expression modeling

Table 1 Details of the paraffin-embedded lung tissue samples used in this study

Patient	Age at diagnosis	Sex	Diagnosis	Histological type	Clinical Stage	Tissue type	Tissue section identification
1	60	M	NSCLC without IPF	Adenocarcinoma	IIIA	Adjacent normal tissue	a1
2	68	F	NSCLC without IPF	Adenocarcinoma	IA	Adjacent normal tissue	a2
3	Unknown	Unknown	Heathy donor			Normal lung tissue	a3
4	61	M	IPF			Abnormal lung tissue	b1
5	56	M	IPF			Abnormal lung tissue	b2
6	66	M	IPF			Abnormal lung tissue	b3
7	68	F	NSCLC without IPF	Adenocarcinoma	IA	Lung tumor tissue	c1
8	49	M	NSCLC without IPF	Squamous carcinoma	IIIA	Lung tumor tissue	c2
9	60	M	NSCLC without IPF	Adenocarcinoma	IIIA	Lung tumor tissue	c3
10	55	M	NSCLC with IPF	Adenocarcinoma	IA	Lung tumor tissue and adjacent tissue with IPF	d and e

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