colon {ShrinkCovMat} | R Documentation

## Colon Cancer Dataset

### Description

The dataset describes a colon cancer study (Alon et al., 1999) in which gene expression levels were measured on 40 normal tissues and on 22 tumor colon tissues. Note that a logarithmic (base 10) transformation has been applied to the gene expression levels.

### Format

A data frame in which the rows correspond to 2000 genes and the columns to 62 tissues. The first 40 columns belong to the normal tissue group while the last 22 columns to the tumor colon tissue group.

### Source

http://genomics-pubs.princeton.edu/oncology/affydata # nolint [Last Assessed: 2016-05-21]

### References

Alon, U., Barkai, N., Notterman, D.A., Gish, K., Ybarra, S., Mack, D. and Levine, A.J. (1999) Broad patterns of gene expression revealed by clustering analysis of tumor and normal colon tissues probed by oligonucleotide arrays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96, 6745–6750.

### Examples

    data(colon)
    summary(colon)

[Package ShrinkCovMat version 1.4.0 Index]