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TCGAretriever (version 1.7)

expand_cases: Explode TCGA Case Identifiers from a TCGA Study

Description

Each TCGA Study includes one or more "case lists". These are lists of sample/patient identifiers. All case lists of a study of interest are retrieved and the individual case identifiers are expanded and returned

Usage

expand_cases(csid = "mel_tsam_liang_2017")

Value

list containing as many elements as TCGA case lists available for a given TCGA Study. Each element is a list containing two elements:

  • a string corresponding to the Id of the case list as defined by TCGA

  • character vector including all case IDs corresponding to the case list

Arguments

csid

string corresponding to a TCGA Cancer Study identifier

Author

Damiano Fantini, damiano.fantini@gmail.com

References

https://www.data-pulse.com/dev_site/TCGAretriever/

Examples

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expand_cases("mel_tsam_liang_2017")

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