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Table 2 Summary of cancer types and bacterial presence

From: Distinguishing potential bacteria-tumor associations from contamination in a secondary data analysis of public cancer genome sequence data

Cancer type

Total no. of seq. runs

Seq. runs with any bacterial read pair

Total no. of patients

Patients with any bacterial read pair

Samples1

Samples with any bacterial read pair

Tumor

Normal

Tumor

Normal

Solid tissue

Blood

Solid tissue

Blood

AML

553

197 (36%)

187

117 (63%)

192

0

0

117 (61%)

NA2

NA

BRCA

754

90 (12%)

430

90 (21%)

425

26

0

87 (20%)

3 (12%)

NA

GBM

1476

600 (41%)

83

72 (87%)

78

0

78

68 (87%)

NA

59 (76%)

KIRC

647

72 (11%)

401

72 (18%)

398

22

0

72 (18%)

0 (0%)

NA

KIRP

15

9 (60%)

15

9 (60%)

15

0

0

9 (60%)

NA

NA

LUAD

76

10 (13%)

76

10 (13%)

76

0

0

10 (13%)

NA

NA

LUSC

306

20 (7%)

174

20 (11%)

172

2

0

20 (12%)

0 (0%)

NA

OV

1991

561 (28%)

160

127 (79%)

154

20

136

105 (68%)

15 (75%)

93 (68%)

STAD

143

142 (99%)

71

71 (100%)

71

0

0

71 (100%)

NA

NA

  1. 1 There can be multiple tumor and normal samples for each patient. A sample is defined as each tumor or normal sample. It should be noted that a tumor sample may have DNA and RNA extracted for sequencing and as such may result in more than one analysis per sample.
  2. 2NA = not applicable