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One of the main open questions in this context is whether the disparity can be attributed only to trivial reasons such as different technologies, different patients and different types of analyses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Results: To answer this question, we concentrated on a single breast cancer dataset, and analyzed it by a single method, the one which was used by van't Veer et al. to produce a set of outcome-predictive genes. We showed that, in fact, the resulting set of genes is not unique; it is strongly influenced by the subset of patients used for gene selection. Many equally predictive lists could have been produced from the same analysis. Three main properties of the data explain this sensitivity: (1) many genes are correlated with survival; (2) the differences between these correlations are small; (3) the correlations fluctuate strongly when measured over different subsets of patients. A possible biological explanation for these properties is discussed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0eytan.domany@weizmann.ac.il<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0http:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/physics\/complex\/compphys\/downloads\/liate\/<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bth469","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,8,12]],"date-time":"2004-08-12T20:15:36Z","timestamp":1092341736000},"page":"171-178","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":621,"title":["Outcome signature genes in breast cancer: is there a unique set?"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Liat","family":"Ein-Dor","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Itai","family":"Kela","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gad","family":"Getz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Givol","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eytan","family":"Domany","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2004,8,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013107193858500_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bair, E. and Tibshirani, R. 2004Semi-supervised methods to predict patient survival from gene expression data. 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