Gene   GSE12251 GSE16879 GSE23597
Symbol Full name Average AUC AUC P-Value AUC P-Value AUC P-Value
IL13RA2 interleukin 13 receptor, alpha 2 0.91 0.90 1.31E-09 0.94 <1E-16 0.87 1.14E-07
PTGS2 prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 0.89 0.97 <1E-16 0.87 5.24E-07 0.83 0.0001
TFPI2 tissue factor pathway inhibitor 2 0.89 0.92 8.93E-14 0.91 9.83E-14 0.83 8.17E-05
STC1 stanniocalcin 1 0.89 0.95 <1E-16 0.88 8.49E-08 0.83 1.23E-05
WNT5A wingless-type MMTV integration site family, member 5A 0.88 0.95 <1E-16 0.92 4.71E-13 0.78 0.001
Table 3: Top five genes ranked by AUC with consistently significant predictive values in all the 3 GEO datasets of colon biopsy samples. Bold: genes overlapping to Table 2.