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Missing normal samples in transcriptomic data from GDC portal

Hi, I downloaded a transcriptomic data from portal.gdc.cancer.gov for RNA-seq and my data from Ovary cancer include (primary tumor and recurrent tumor) samples, there's no normal samples.

is there any explanation for that ?! thanks

transcriptome mrna rna-seq portal.gdc.cancer

1 answer

Most cancer projects don't spend money sequencing normal transcriptome. You can go to GTEx for normals of unmatched patients

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