Expression analysis and in silico characterization of intronic long noncoding RNAs in renal cell carcinoma: emerging functional associations

Table 2 Summary of meta-analysis of the 217 protein-coding genes ccRCC signature from the present work with nine publicly available microarray studies comparing tumor and nontumor tissue samples from ccRCC patients

	Takahashi et al. [52]	Skubitz et al. [5]	Higgins et al. [56]*	Lenburg et al. [54]*	Liou et al. [53]	Jones et al. [55]	Gumz et al. [57]*	Beroukhim et al. [58]	Brito et al. [49]
# of genes in common	4	2	35	93	4	42	109	1	29
# of concordant genes^§	4	2	29	78	4	38	94	1	29
% of concordance	100.0	100.0	82.9	83.9	100.0	90.5	86.2	100.0	100.0

§ Genes differentially expressed in the same direction (up or down) of that from our study.
* Lists of differentially expressed genes (p <0.05) obtained from Oncomine™ database. The lists of differentially expressed genes from the other studies in this Table were obtained directly from the published papers (see References).

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