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| Title |
Prognostic signatures in breast cancer: correlation does not imply causation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Breast Cancer Research, June 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/bcr3173 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Charlotte Ng, Britta Weigelt, Anita Grigoriadis, Jorge S Reis-Filho |
| Abstract |
Testing the statistical associations between microarray-based gene expression signatures and patient outcome has become a popular approach to infer biological and clinical significance of laboratory observations. Venet and colleagues recently demonstrated that the majority of randomly generated gene signatures are significantly associated with outcome of breast cancer patients, and that this association stems from the fact that a large proportion of the transcriptome is significantly correlated with proliferation, a strong predictor of outcome in breast cancer patients. These findings demonstrate that a statistical association between a gene signature and disease outcome does not necessarily imply biological significance. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 29 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 3% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 26 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 28% |
| Researcher | 6 | 21% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 14% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 17% |
| Unknown | 1 | 3% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 31% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 28% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 14% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 2 | 7% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 June 2012.
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#16,047,334
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#1,430
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#108,133
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Outputs of similar age from Breast Cancer Research
#28
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