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normal sample of ovarian cancer in TCGA dataset

Hello,

I want to compare the fallopian tube (normal) and cancer samples form TCGA ovarian cancer patients.

Where can I find the fallopian tube (normal) sample? Is that "Solid Normal Tissue"?

Thanks in advance for great help!

yue

rna-seq

1 answer

Yes, Solid Normal Tissue is one of the 'normal' tissues that were used in the TCGA. You can infer whether a sample is from tumour or normal by its TCGA barcode. The fourth (4th) component of the TCGA barcode, a 2-digit number, indicates this:

TCGA_barcode

  • Tumour samples: 01 - 09
  • Normal samples: 10 -19
  • Control samples: 20 - 29

Further information:

If you don't have the TCGA barcodes and just have file UUIDs or filenames, then you can [possibly] obtain the matching TCGA barcodes for these via these functions:

Best of luck, Kevin

Hello, Kevin Blighe,

Thank you so much for your great help!

You told me so detailed knowledge!

Thank you again!

Yue LI

谢谢 / Thank you!

Best of luck.

Kevin

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