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Table 1 Number of genomic copy-number and gene-expression cancer samples used in the study

From: Inferring synthetic lethal interactions from mutual exclusivity of genetic events in cancer

Cancer

Genomic

Gene expression

Total

Breast

847

1182

2029

Prostate

152

471

623

Ovarian

562

266

828

Uterine

443

57

500

Total

2004

1976

3980

  1. The datasets were downloaded for four cancers – breast, prostate, ovarian and uterine – from CBioportal (http://www.cbioportal.org/index.do) [41, 42] and TCGA Firehose (http://gdac.broadinstitute.org/), giving a total of 3980 cancer samples