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Hello, I'm having trouble finding the height, weight and BMI variables in a public gse73103 database. I was able to import the data with the following code.
gse73103<-getGEO('GSE73103')
I got this result
Found 1 file(s)
GSE73103_series_matrix.txt.gz
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But I can't find these variables in the data. I just find the sex and age and weightcategory. I admit that there is an object called protocolData of class S4 and size [355*0]. I don't know if the variables I'm looking for are in this object and the download wasn't complete or the object is really empty.
Thank you in advance for your help.
FWIW: when I would like to make use of publicly available data, I always use the website to explore which metadata is submitted to GEO (and thus can be obtained). If you check the first sample (
GSM1886364) (here), you will see that the variables you were able to access are indeed the only ones submitted (in addition to the genotype for a set of SNPs). In other words, the info on height, weight and BMI isn't present at GEO, and thus also not in the imported object.Thanks for your response.