Those numbers are Entrez IDs. You can get their gene symbols from one of the Bioconductor databases.
library(org.Hs.eg.db) entrezToSymbols <- as.list(org.Hs.egSYMBOL) > head(entrezToSymbols) $`1` [1] "A1BG" $`10` [1] "NAT2" $`100` [1] "ADA" $`1000` [1] "CDH2" $`10000` [1] "AKT3" $`100008586` [1] "GAGE12F" -------------------------------------- Dario Strbenac Research Assistant Cancer Epigenetics Garvan Institute of Medical Research Darlinghurst NSW 2010 Australia _______________________________________________ Bioc-sig-sequencing mailing list Bioc-sig-sequencing@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-sig-sequencing