Metastatic Prostate Adenocarcinoma (MCTP, Nature 2012)
Exome sequencing of 61 prostate cancer tumor/normal pairs (50 metastatic CRPCs and 11 high-grade localized prostate cancers). Generated by Arul Chinnaiyan's and Scott Tomlins' labs at the University of Michigan.
Can it answer your research question?
1 of 6 supportedOverall survival
SupportedVital status and time are populated; median follow-up 8.0 years; 48 cases with follow-up; endpoint: overall survival.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
Not measuredThis field was not among those probed for this repository.
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
- Sex59 Male · 60 no value recorded
- Vital status48 DECEASED · 11 LIVING · 60 no value recorded
What was measured, and on how many
- Mutation calls (panel, exome or genome)61 of 121 samples · 50%
- Copy number alterations61 of 121 samples · 50%
- Structural variants / fusions
How complete all 5 clinical fields are - 1 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 = "prad_mich"
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/prad_mich.tar.gzThis page as data: limitations firstbash
curl -s https://cd2s.vercel.app/data/datasets/cbio-prad-mich.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=prad_mich - 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/prad_mich - 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/prad_mich/clinical-data?clinicalDataType=PATIENT&projection=SUMMARY'
Provenance
All of it, and more, is in this record’s JSON.
Versions and verification
- Metadata retrieved
- 18 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Machine-extracted
- Data generation funding
- Funded data generation
Funding
Funded data generation
- U01CA113913Prostate Cancer Biomarker and Imaging Validation Alliance: Emory University, University of Alabama Birmingham, and University of Texas SouthwesternMartin G. SandaAPI
- U01CA111275A Systems Biology Approach to the Development of Cancer BiomarkersARUL M CHINNAIYAN, MARK A. RUBINAPI
- T32CA140044Proteogenomics of Cancer Training ProgramARVIND RAO, Maureen Agnes SartorAPI
- T32CA009676Training Program in Tumor MicroenvironmentMaria G Castro, Analisa Virginia DiFeoAPI
- R01CA132874Molecuar Sub-typing of Prostate Cancer Based on Recurrent Gene FusionsARUL M CHINNAIYANAPI
- R01CA013287GENETIC BASIS OF ANTIGENIC VARIATIONROBERT A HYMANAPI
- P50CA069568SPORE in Prostate CancerARUL M CHINNAIYAN, KATHLEEN A COONEYAPI
- P30CA046592Immunologic Monitoring (IM)Maria G Castro, Eric R. FearonAPI