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Table 1 Patient and tumor characteristics of included cohorts

From: An integrated genomics analysis of epigenetic subtypes in human breast tumors links DNA methylation patterns to chromatin states in normal mammary cells

Characteristic

Discovery cohort (n)

Validation cohort (n)

Total number of samples

188

669

 Unique patients

181

666

 Primary tumors

183

665

 Recurrent tumors

5

4

Median age, years

48

58

Estrogen receptor status

 Positive

97

474

 Negative

77

142

Tumor size

 T1

66

176

 T2

81

371

 T3

5

86

Node status

 Positive

59

356

 Negative

91

290

Histological type

 Ductal

120

446

 Lobular

8

134

 Medullary

3

5

 Mixed

9

24

 Other

18

44

Molecular subtype

 Luminal A

41

251

 Luminal B

30

144

 HER2-enriched

32

73

 Basal-like

44

126

 Normal-like

11

67

  1. HER2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2