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Table 1 Clinical characteristics and multi-omics methods of highlighted articles

From: New insights into the biology and development of lung cancer in never smokers—implications for early detection and treatment

 

Devarakonda et al. [20]

Zhang et al. [22]

Chen et al. [21]

Sample size for genomic analysis

459

232

103

Number of never smokers

88 (+ 76 NS external samples)

232

85

Sample type

Lung tumor, adjacent normal tissue

Lung tumor, adjacent normal tissue, and blood

Lung tumor, adjacent normal tissue, and blood

NSCLC Type

LUAD (100%)

LUAD (81.5%)

Carcinoids (15.5%)

Other (3%)

LUAD (100%)

Mean patient age at diagnosis (SD)

68.2 (11.8)

64.8 (11.9)

63.5 (10.3)

Patient sex (%)

Male (29.9%)

Male (24.6%)

Male (29.4%)

Female (70.1%)

Female (75.4%)

Female (70.6%)

Never smoker patient ethnicity (%)

Caucasian (72.7%)

European (97%)

Taiwanese (100%)

Asian (12.5%)

Asian (2%)

African (9.1%)

African (1%)

Other (5.7%)

Methods

Whole exome sequencing

Whole genome sequencing

Whole exome sequencing

RNA sequencing

RNA sequencing

35 LUAD underwent RNA-Seq

Proteome analysis

Phosphoproteome analysis