DPT and neoplasm: Most of the validated mRNAs provided unique information about tumor aggressiveness, however, three pairs of transcripts in the validated set of 23 were correlated (P‐values < 0.05): CCNA2 and TPX2 (r2 = 0.61); SRD5A2 and DPT (r2 = 0.56); and SRD5A2 and FBLN1 (r2 = 0.73).