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Thousands of samples are needed to generate a robust gene list for predicting outcome in cancer

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Fig. 3.
Fig. 3.

The typical overlap f*n as a function of the number of samples, for the six different data sets (α = 0.012 was used). All curves except lung cancer (3) were produced using the analytical results. Because no agreement was found between simulation and analytical results for lung cancer (3), this curve was produced using extrapolation of simulation results (see Materials and Methods). Numbers in parentheses refer to the reference from which the data were taken.

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