Table 1 Summary of genotyping (GWAS) data and microarray gene expression data.

Source

CGEMS [24]

GEO: GDS2547 [25, 26]

# of features

506,216 SNPs

10,595 genes

# of samples

Cases:1146

Controls: 1097

Cases: 64

Controls: 75

Phenotype

Prostate cancer

Subset 1 (17, normal prostate tissue)

Subset 2 (58, normal prostate adjacent to tumor)

Subset 3 (64, primary prostate tumor)

Platform

Illumina HumanHap300 and HumanHap240

Affymetrix Human Genome U95C array