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Pitfalls in re-analysis of observational omics studies: a post-mortem of the human pathology atlas

2020-03-18

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Uhlen et al. (Reports, 18 august 2017) published an open-access resource with cancer-specific marker genes that are prognostic for patient survival in seventeen different types of cancer. However, their data analysis workflow is prone to the accumulation of false positives. A more reliable workflow with flexible Cox proportional hazards models employed on the same data highlights three distinct problems with such...

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aec0e45b-9af5-5389-9f44-3f824386fc5d
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10.1101/2020.03.16.994038
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