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Table 1 Tumor types and number of TCGA RNA-seq samples used in the analysis

From: A comprehensive genomic pan-cancer classification using The Cancer Genome Atlas gene expression data

Available Cancer Types

Number of Samples

Pan-cancer

Males (%)

Females (%)

Adrenocortical carcinoma

ACC

79

31 (0.76)

48 (1.82)

Bladder urothelial carcinoma

BLCA

408

272 (6.67)

99

Breast invasive carcinoma

BRCA

1102

Sex-specific (omitted)

Cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical adenocarcinoma

CESC

306

Sex-specific (omitted)

Cholangiocarcinoma

CHOL

36

Too few (omitted)

Colon adenocarcinoma

COAD

287

156 (3.82)

129 (4.89)

Lymphoid neoplasm diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

DLBC

48

Too few (omitted)

Esophageal carcinoma

ESCA

Not available

159 (3.90)

26 (0.99)

Glioblastoma multiforme

GBM

169

109 (2.67)

59 (2.24)

Head and Neck squamous cell carcinoma

HNSC

522

385 (9.43)

137 (5.19)

Kidney chromophobe

KICH

66

Too few (omitted)

Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma

KIRC

534

346 (8.48)

188 (7.13)

Kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma

KIRP

291

214 (5.24)

77 (2.92)

Acute Myeloid Leukemia

LAML

173

93 (2.28)

80 (3.03)

Brain lower grade glioma

LGG

534

292 (7.16)

241 (9.14)

Liver hepatocellular carcinoma

LIHC

374

253 (6.20)

121 (4.59)

Lung adenocarcinoma

LUAD

517

240 (5.88)

277 (10.50)

Lung squamous cell carcinoma

LUSC

502

371 (9.09)

131 (4.97)

Mesothelioma

MESO

87

71 (1.74)

16 (0.61)

Ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma

OV

266

Sex-specific (omitted)

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

PAAD

179

99 (2.43)

80 (3.03)

Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma

PCPG

184

82 (2.01)

102 (3.87)

Prostate adenocarcinoma

PRAD

498

Sex-specific (omitted)

Rectum adenocarcinoma

READ

95

52 (1.27)

42 (1.59)

Sarcoma

SARC

263

119 (2.92)

144 (5.46)

Skin cutaneous melanoma

SKCM

473

259 (6.35)

156 (5.91)

Stomach adenocarcinoma

STAD

Not available

268 (6.57)

147 (5.57)

Testicular germ cell tumors

TGCT

156

Sex-specific (omitted)

Thyroid carcinoma

THCA

513

102 (2.50)

246 (9.33)

Thymoma

THYM

120

63 (1.54)

57 (2.16)

Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma

UCEC

177

Sex-specific (omitted)

Uterine carcinosarcoma

UCS

57

Too few (omitted)

Uveal melanoma

UVM

80

45 (1.10)

35 (1.33)

Total

 

9096

4081

2638