Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Can it answer your research question?
3 of 6 supportedOverall survival
SupportedVital status and time are populated; median follow-up 1.0 years; 188 cases with follow-up; endpoint: overall survival.API
Progression or recurrence
Not supportedprogression_or_recurrenceis informative for no case in the harmonized records.APITreatment response
Not supportedtreatment_outcomeis populated for no case in the harmonized records.APIWhich drug was given
Supportedtherapeutic_agentsis recorded for 100% of cases.APIStage-adjusted modelling
Not supportedajcc_pathologic_stageis informative for no case in the harmonized records.APIAnalysis by race or ethnicity
SupportedRace is informative for 99% 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
- Sex109 male · 91 female
- Race181 white · 15 black or african american · 2 asian · 2 not reported
- Ethnicity194 not hispanic or latino · 3 hispanic or latino · 3 not reported
- Vital status133 dead · 67 alive
Age at diagnosis
What was measured, and on how many
- Bulk RNA sequencing151 of 200 · 76%
- microRNA sequencing188 of 200 · 94%
- Whole genome sequencing50 of 200 · 25%
- Whole exome sequencing150 of 200 · 75%
- SNP genotyping array (copy number, germline)200 of 200 · 100%
- DNA methylation array194 of 200 · 97%
- Gene expression microarray183 of 200 · 92%
- Clinical200 of 200 · 100%
- Structural Variation151 of 200 · 76%
Platform, files and data levels
| Assay | Platform | Files | Levels |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulk RNA sequencingAPI | illumina | 1,359 | - |
| microRNA sequencingAPI | illumina | 564 | - |
| Whole genome sequencingAPI | illumina | 118 | - |
| Whole exome sequencingAPI | illumina | 2,579 | - |
| SNP genotyping array (copy number, germline)API | illumina | 2,466 | - |
| DNA methylation arrayAPI | illumina | 1,164 | - |
| Gene expression microarrayAPI | illumina | 183 | - |
| ClinicalAPI | - | 201 | - |
| Structural VariationAPI | - | 604 | - |
How complete all 29 clinical fields are - 14 informative for at least 80% of cases
Outcome
Follow-up
Treatment
Diagnosis
Demographics
Access
Data Access Request through dbGaP using an eRA Commons account; institutional signing official approval required
- Open components
- 4,099 open-access files
- Controlled components
- 4,740 controlled-access files
- Typical turnaround
- days to a few weeks after signing official approval
- License
- NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy terms
- Citation requirement
- Cite the dataset accession and the program's publication guidelines; see the GDC publication policy.
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.
What articles did with it
- Cited the paper4,096
- Mentioned the dataset31
- Accession found in text0
- Declared using it63
- Analyzed the data441
Against comparable datasets
- Analyzed it441
- Expected~71
- Reuse is within the expected range for comparable datasets (index +2.63).
Original publication
Articles that analyzed the data
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
GDC: list open files and download thempython
import json, requests
PROJECT = "TCGA-LAML"
filters = {"op": "and", "content": [
{"op": "in", "content": {"field": "cases.project.project_id", "value": [PROJECT]}},
{"op": "in", "content": {"field": "access", "value": ["open"]}},
]}
params = {"filters": json.dumps(filters),
"fields": "file_id,file_name,data_category,data_type,file_size",
"size": "10000", "format": "JSON"}
files = requests.get("https://api.gdc.cancer.gov/files", params=params, timeout=60).json()["data"]["hits"]
print(len(files), "open files")
# Write a manifest and fetch with the GDC client (https://gdc.cancer.gov/access-data/gdc-data-transfer-tool)
with open("manifest.txt", "w") as fh:
fh.write("id\n" + "\n".join(f["file_id"] for f in files))
# $ gdc-client download -m manifest.txtGDC: clinical table for every casepython
import json, requests
filters = {"op": "in", "content": {"field": "project.project_id", "value": ["TCGA-LAML"]}}
params = {"filters": json.dumps(filters), "size": "5000", "format": "TSV",
"fields": ",".join([
"submitter_id", "demographic.vital_status", "demographic.days_to_death",
"diagnoses.days_to_last_follow_up", "diagnoses.ajcc_pathologic_stage",
"diagnoses.treatments.treatment_type", "diagnoses.treatments.treatment_outcome"])}
tsv = requests.get("https://api.gdc.cancer.gov/cases", params=params, timeout=60).text
open("TCGA-LAML_clinical.tsv", "w").write(tsv)This page as data: limitations firstbash
curl -s https://cd2s.vercel.app/data/datasets/gdc-tcga-laml.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 project in the GDC Data PortalFor people
Check the portal's current case and file counts before requesting anything; the cohort can change after this record was built.
https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/projects/TCGA-LAML - Download the open files without an accountFor people
4,099 open-access files are marked open access. Add them to a portal cart, export a manifest, and fetch it with the GDC Data Transfer Tool.
https://gdc.cancer.gov/access-data/gdc-data-transfer-toolgdc-client download -m gdc_manifest.txt - Request controlled access through dbGaPFor people
4,740 controlled-access files require an approved data access request. The request starts at dbGaP, not in the portal. The relevant study is phs000178.
https://gdc.cancer.gov/access-data/obtaining-access-controlled-data - Download controlled files with your tokenFor people
An approved request yields a token. The same manifest fetches nothing controlled without it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000178gdc-client download -m gdc_manifest.txt -t gdc-user-token.txt - Query the project from code, with no credentialsFor agents
The file index is public even where files are not, so an agent can size the cohort before anyone requests access.
https://docs.gdc.cancer.gov/API/Users_Guide/Getting_Started/curl -s 'https://api.gdc.cancer.gov/files' --get \ --data-urlencode 'filters={"op":"in","content":{"field":"cases.project.project_id","value":["TCGA-LAML"]}}' \ --data-urlencode 'fields=file_id,file_name,data_type' \ --data-urlencode 'size=10000' --data-urlencode 'format=TSV' - Pass the token when the agent needs controlled filesFor agents
Without a token, an API query may return only the open subset. Compare returned counts with the record before treating them as the whole cohort.
https://docs.gdc.cancer.gov/API/Users_Guide/Getting_Started/curl -H "X-Auth-Token: $GDC_TOKEN" https://api.gdc.cancer.gov/data/<file_id>
Provenance
All of it, and more, is in this record’s JSON.
Versions and verification
- Released
- 1 Jan 2016
- Metadata retrieved
- 18 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Machine-extracted
- Data generation funding
- Funded data generation
Funding
Funded data generation
- U24CA144025Harvard Genome Characterization CenterRaju S. KucherlapatiAPI
- U24CA143883Integrative Pipeline for Analysis & Translational Application of TCGA Data (GDAC)Rehan Akbani, GORDON B. MILLSAPI
- U24CA143882The USC-JHU Cancer Epigenome Characterization CenterSTEPHEN B. BAYLIN, Daniel Joseph WeisenbergerAPI
- U24CA143867Genome Characterization Center (GCC)Stacey Gabriel, Matthew L. MeyersonAPI
- U24CA143866Cancer transcriptome characterization using massively parallel DNA sequencingMarco Antonio MarraAPI
- U24CA143858UCSC-Buck Inst. Genome Data Analysis Center for TCGA Research Network (GDAC)Christopher Benz, DAVID H HAUSSLERAPI
- U24CA143848Gene Expression Patterns in Human Tumors Identified Using Transcript SequencingDavid N Hayes, CHARLES M PEROUAPI
- U24CA143845The Cancer Genome Atlas Data Analysis CenterLYNDA CHIN, GAD A GETZAPI
- U24CA143843The BCM Tumor Genome Characterization CenterRICHARD A GIBBS, David Andrew WheelerAPI
- U24CA143840MSKCC Center for Translational Cancer Genomic AnalysisMarc Ladanyi, CHRIS SANDERAPI