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Table 2 Type, subtypes, and sources of clinical parameters used in elastic-net analysis. Eighteen total clinical parameters were included—availability of each clinical attribute is dependent on cancer type

From: The Cancer Genome Atlas Clinical Explorer: a web and mobile interface for identifying clinical–genomic driver associations

Clinical parameter

Number of subtypes

Type

Subtypes

Number of cancer types

Source

Country

16

Categorical

US, Russia, Korea South, Italy, etc.

17

TCGA

Gender

2

Binary

male, female

18

TCGA

HistoType

by cancer type

Categorical

Ex) Intestinal/diffuse for stomach

10

TCGA

PriorMalignancy

2

Binary

yes, no

7

TCGA

FamilyHistory

by cancer type

Ordinal

0,1,2,3

1

TCGA

M-Status

2

Binary

M0, M1

15

TCGA

N-Status

4

Ordinal

N0, N1, N2, N3

18

TCGA

ClinicalStage

4

Ordinal

I, II, III, IV

16

TCGA

T-Status

5

Ordinal

T0, T1, T2, T3, T4,

18

TCGA

HistoGrade

3

Ordinal

Low, Intermediate, High

11

TCGA

SmokingHistory

4

Categorical

Current smoker, Lifelong Non-smoker, Current reformed smoker for >15 years, Current reformed smoker for ≤15 years

8

TCGA

MolecularSubtype

2

Categorical

CIN, GS, MSI, EBV

1

TCGA

MSIstatus

3

Ordinal

MSS, MSI-L, MSI-H

5

UCSC

PAM50clust

5

Categorical

Normal-like, Luminal A, Luminal B, Basal-like, HER2-enriched

1

UCSC

RPPAclustersBRCA

6

Categorical

ReacI, LumA/B, Basal, LumA, Her2, ReacII

1

UCSC

GeneExpSubtype

4

Categorical

Classical, Mesenchymal, Proneural, Neural

1

UCSC

TripleMarker

4

Categorical

TripleNegative, Her2Positive, Erpositive, TriplePositive

1

UCSC

EBV present

2

Binary

Positive, Negative

1

cBio

  1. cBio cBio portal, EBV Epstein–Barr virus, GeneExpSubtype types based on gene expression in glioblastoma multiforme, HistoGrade histology grade, HistoType histological type, CIN chromosomal instability, GS genomically stable, MSIstatus microsatellite instability status, MSS Microsatellite stable, MSI-L Microsatellite instable-low, MSI-H Microsatellite instable-high, PAM50clust clusters based on PAM50, RPPAclustersBRCA clusters based on reverse phase protein array data, TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas, UCSC University of California Santa Cruz cancer genome browser