There are 20 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 32 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), both variants of a blood cancer. The makeup of the groups as follows:

Each individual has an expression value for each of 10000 different genes. The expression value for each gene is a continuous value between -1 and 1. With which type of plot can you encode the most amount of the data visually?

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There are 20 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 32 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), both variants of a blood cancer. The makeup of the groups as follows:

Each individual has an expression value for each of 10000 different genes. The expression value for each gene is a continuous value between -1 and 1. With which type of plot can you encode the most amount of the data visually?

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C. A scatter plot of two largest principal components

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A. A heat map sorting the individuals by group

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B. A histogram of the expression values

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