The clinicopathological parameters of the cohort are summarised in Figure S5E,F. The GEO dataset GSE17025 [54 (link)] with heterogeneous distribution of grade and histological subtypes of EC cases (n = 91), was analysed. The GEOquery package [55 (link)] of R was used to retrieve the expression matrices and clinicopathological parameters of the datasets, the expression data of GSE17025 was normalised to a target intensity of 500 using Affymetrix’s MAS5.0 and was log2 transformed. Tumour grade 1 and 2 were grouped as low, grade 3 as high in the analysis.
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