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Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (TCGA, Nature 2015)

cBioPortal DataHub · study hnsc_tcga_pub · www.cbioportal.org/study/summary?id=hnsc_tcga_pub

Study metadataOpen database (ODbL)PubMed 1TCGA (other releases)Approximately 1 min read

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1. Summary2. Study description3. Citation & PubMed4. Source & licence

Summary

Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (TCGA, Nature 2015) is a study catalogued by cBioPortal DataHub under the cancer-type code hnsc. EvidenceHelix groups it with head and neck studies and lists it in the TCGA (other releases) collection.

This page is catalog metadata only: what the study is called and where to find it. It does not report findings, mutation frequencies or patient numbers, and it is not clinical guidance.

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Study description

Whole-exome sequencing and/or whole-genome sequencing of 279 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma tumor/normal pairs. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma Project.

Text as published in the source's study metadata.

Citation & PubMed

TCGA, Nature 2015

Linked PubMed records: PMID 25631445

Source & licence

Metadata from cBioPortal DataHub at e1b75cd25b, available under the ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. See the Source metadata tab for every field.

Source metadata

Study identifier
hnsc_tcga_pub
Short name
Head & neck (TCGA pub)
Source cancer-type code
hnsc
Reference genome
not given
Source access groups
PUBLIC
Original study
View on cBioPortal
Metadata file
meta_study.txt at e1b75cd25b
Database licence
ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0

Study-level metadata only (title, description, cancer-type code, citation, PubMed ids). No patient, sample, mutation or clinical data, and no publication full text, is included. Individual studies may carry their own terms; follow each study's source links before reusing its data. TCGA data are available under the Broad Institute GDAC TCGA Analysis Pipeline License; TCGA-derived records are preliminary or legacy releases.

Citations

TCGA, Nature 2015

  • PubMed record 25631445 ↗

Citation counts are not part of the source metadata and are not shown.

Related studies

  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Broad, Science 2011)

    Whole-exome sequencing of 74 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma tumor/normal pairs.

    Head and neckOther published and consortium studiesSource code hnscPubMed 1
  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Johns Hopkins, Science 2011)

    Whole exome sequencing of 32 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma tumor/normal sample pairs.

    Head and neckOther published and consortium studiesSource code hnscPubMed 1
  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (TCGA, Firehose Legacy)

    TCGA Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Source data from GDAC Firehose (http://gdac.broadinstitute.org/runs/stddata__2016_01_28/data/HNSC/20160128/). Previously known as TCGA Provisional.

    Head and neckTCGA Firehose LegacySource code hnsc
  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (TCGA, PanCancer Atlas)

    Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma TCGA PanCancer data. The original data is here (https://gdc.cancer.gov/about-data/publications/pancanatlas). The publications are here (https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/consortium/p…

    Head and neckTCGA PanCancer AtlasSource code hnscPubMed 12
  • Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (FMI, Am J Surg Pathl. 2014)

    Targeted Sequencing of 28 metastatic Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma samples.

    Head and neckOther published and consortium studiesSource code acycPubMed 1
  • Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (JHU, Cancer Prev Res 2016)

    Whole-genome or whole-exome sequencing of 25 adenoid cystic carcinoma tumor/normal pairs.

    Head and neckOther published and consortium studiesSource code acycPubMed 1
  • Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (MDA, Clin Cancer Res 2015)

    WGS of 21 salivary ACCs and targeted molecular analyses of a validation set (81 patients).

    Head and neckOther published and consortium studiesSource code acycPubMed 1
  • Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (MSK, Nat Genet 2013)

    Whole-exome or whole-genome sequencing analysis of 60 ACC tumor/normal pairs

    Head and neckMSK studiesSource code acycPubMed 1

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At a glance

Study ID
hnsc_tcga_pub
Cancer family
Head and neck
Collection
TCGA (other releases)
Source code
hnsc
PubMed links
1

Family and collection are EvidenceHelix groupings derived from the title; the source code is the source's own.

Related studies See all →

  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Broad, Science 2011)Other published and consortium studies
  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Johns Hopkins, Science 2011)Other published and consortium studies
  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (TCGA, Firehose Legacy)TCGA Firehose Legacy
  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (TCGA, PanCancer Atlas)TCGA PanCancer Atlas

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Original sources

  • Study on cBioPortal ↗
  • Source metadata file ↗
  • PubMed 25631445 ↗

Study metadata from cBioPortal DataHub (e1b75cd25b, synced 2026-10-31), available under the ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0; attribution required. EvidenceLib is a research-education resource, not medical advice. Sources & licence