Figure 2

Prediction of microsatellite instability. (A) Prediction of MSI status for 39 samples using the PAM cross-validation procedure. The graphical representation shows the probabilities (0.0 to 1.0) of each tumor for being MSS (pink dot) or MSI-H (blue dot). All tumors were correctly assigned. (B) Supervised hierarchical clustering of colon cancer samples using expression data from the 27 predictor mRNA/miRNA genes described in Table 2. Using the predictors for the cluster analysis, a good separation among colorectal cancers in MSS (red) and MSI-H (yellow) groups was achieved. Expression intensity is shown as described in Figure 1.