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Table 2 Overall accuracy of SVM for small gene sets selected by RFE

From: Predicting cancer type from tumour DNA signatures

Number of genes used

Only somatic point mutated genes as predictors

Only copy number altered genes as predictors

Somatic point-mutated genes and copy number altered genes

10

28.8±0.5 %

39.3±0.8 %

40.6±0.9 %

20

35.3±0.5 %

53.4±0.4 %

61.5±0.6 %

50

44.3±0.4 %

67.7±0.4 %

77.7±0.3 %

70

47.2±0.4 %

71.7±0.3 %

81.2±0.3 %

100

49.4±0.4 %

74.7±0.3 %

83.8±0.3 %