Normal Keratinocytes (UCSF, BioRxiv 2024)
Whole exome and targeted sequencing data of 137 normal keratinocytes samples from human skin. The study is part of a broader analysis involving three distinct cell types, with findings stratified accordingly (see related melanocytes and fibroblasts studies).
Can it answer your research question?
1 of 6 supportedOverall survival
Not supportedNo usable overall-survival endpoint: vital status or follow-up time is missing.API
Progression or recurrence
Not measuredThis field was not among those probed for this repository.
Treatment response
Not supportedNo treatment response is recorded in the harmonized records.API
Which drug was given
Not measuredThis field was not among those probed for this repository.
Stage-adjusted modelling
Not measuredThis field was not among those probed for this repository.
Analysis by race or ethnicity
SupportedETHNICITY is informative for 100% of cases.API
At a glance
Every percentage is the repository’s own record of what is filled inSubjectCALC
As filed by the repository
Who is in the cohortAPI
- Sex9 Female · 6 Male
- Ethnicity13 Caucasian · 2 Hispanic
What was measured, and on how many
- Mutation calls (panel, exome or genome)137 of 137 samples · 100%
- RNA sequencing expression110 of 137 samples · 80%
How complete all 3 clinical fields are - 3 informative for at least 80% of cases
Access
Processed data download from the cBioPortal study page or its public REST API; no account required. Primary raw data remain wherever the original investigators deposited them.
- Open components
- harmonized mutation, copy-number, expression and clinical files
- License
- Per-study terms; cBioPortal asks that the original study be cited
- Citation requirement
- Cite the original publication, and cite cBioPortal if the portal's harmonized files were used.
What it is good for
Written and checked by a reviewer, not generated from metadata.
No reviewed research questions yet. The measurements and field completeness above are machine-extracted and still useful for judging fit.
What it cannot tell you
Written by a reviewer against the source, not inferred from what is missing.
No reviewed limitations yet. Check the field completeness chart above before committing to an analysis. Low coverage on an endpoint you need is the most common blocker.
Who has used it
Articles that analyzed these data, counted separately from articles that only cited the paper. Only the first counts as reuse.
- Not assessed: this dataset has no accession specific enough for citation-based reuse tracing, so a shortfall cannot be measured.
Original publication
Articles that analyzed the data
Not searchable. See the note above.
Community examples
Share your exampleAnalyses someone ran on these data end to end, each with a receipt recording when it ran, against which packages and for how long.
Nobody has shared an analysis of this dataset yet. The examples on other datasets cover the common patterns and can be adapted - and if you adapt one, it belongs here.
Start here
Starter code generated from this record’s own identifiers, then the access steps.
Get the data in code
cBioPortal: clinical data and the full study bundlepython
import requests, pandas as pd
STUDY = "normal_skin_keratinocytes_2024"
base = "https://www.cbioportal.org/api"
clin = requests.get(f"{base}/studies/{STUDY}/clinical-data",
params={"clinicalDataType": "PATIENT", "projection": "SUMMARY"}, timeout=60).json()
patients = pd.DataFrame(clin).pivot_table(index="patientId", columns="clinicalAttributeId",
values="value", aggfunc="first")
print(patients.shape)
profiles = requests.get(f"{base}/studies/{STUDY}/molecular-profiles", timeout=60).json()
print([p["molecularProfileId"] for p in profiles])
# Whole study as flat files: https://cbioportal-datahub.s3.amazonaws.com/normal_skin_keratinocytes_2024.tar.gzThis page as data: limitations firstbash
curl -s https://cd2s.vercel.app/data/datasets/cbio-normal-skin-keratinocytes-2024.json | python3 -c '
import json, sys
r = json.load(sys.stdin)
for l in r["limitations"]:
print(l["severity"].upper(), "-", l["statement"][:120])
print("survival endpoint:", r["longitudinal"]["has_survival_endpoint"], "| treatment response:", r["longitudinal"]["has_treatment_response"])'Access steps
- Open the study in cBioPortalFor people
Harmonized molecular and clinical files are open. Cite the original publication, and cite cBioPortal if the portal's harmonized files were used.
https://www.cbioportal.org/study/summary?id=normal_skin_keratinocytes_2024 - Download the whole study as a zipFor people
The datasets page carries the staging files used by the portal.
https://www.cbioportal.org/datasets - Or pull the staging files with git-lfsFor people
Study folders are named by study id under public/.
https://github.com/cBioPortal/datahubgit clone https://github.com/cBioPortal/datahub.git && cd datahub git -c lfs.fetchexclude="" lfs pull -I public/normal_skin_keratinocytes_2024 - Read the study straight from the REST APIFor agents
No key is required; pace requests when sweeping many studies.
https://docs.cbioportal.org/web-api-and-clients/curl -s 'https://www.cbioportal.org/api/studies/normal_skin_keratinocytes_2024/clinical-data?clinicalDataType=PATIENT&projection=SUMMARY'
Provenance
All of it, and more, is in this record’s JSON.
Identifiers
- cBioPortal studynormal_skin_keratinocytes_2024API
Versions and verification
- Metadata retrieved
- 18 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Machine-extracted
- Data generation funding
- Funded data generation
Funding
Funded data generation
- U01CA294536Pre-cancer atlas of skin cancerBoris C. Bastian, Alan Hunter ShainAPI
- R01CA265786The genomic landscape and evolution of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomaAlan Hunter ShainAPI