Bladder Urothelial Carinoma: Correlation between gene mutation status and selected clinical features

Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School)

Overview

Introduction

This pipeline computes the correlation between significantly recurrent gene mutations and selected clinical features.

Summary

Testing the association between mutation status of 8 genes and 3 clinical features across 28 patients, no significant finding detected with Q value < 0.25.

No gene mutations related to clinical features.

Results

Overview of the results

Table 1. Get Full Table Overview of the association between mutation status of 8 genes and 3 clinical features. Shown in the table are P values (Q values). Thresholded by Q value < 0.25, no significant finding detected.


		Clinical Features	Time to Death	AGE	GENDER
	nMutated (%)	nWild-Type	logrank test	t-test	Fisher's exact test
TP53	9 (32%)	19	0.839 (1.00)	0.437 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
KDM6A	6 (21%)	22	0.686 (1.00)	0.503 (1.00)	0.634 (1.00)
ELF3	3 (11%)	25	0.287 (1.00)	0.129 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
HLA-A	3 (11%)	25	0.252 (1.00)	0.378 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
XPR1	4 (14%)	24	0.457 (1.00)	0.358 (1.00)	0.601 (1.00)
ARID1A	5 (18%)	23	0.721 (1.00)	0.825 (1.00)	0.626 (1.00)
ERCC2	4 (14%)	24	0.549 (1.00)	0.917 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
FBXW7	4 (14%)	24	0.894 (1.00)	0.527 (1.00)	0.601 (1.00)

Methods & Data

Input

Mutation data file = BLCA.mutsig.cluster.txt
Clinical data file = BLCA.clin.merged.picked.txt
Number of patients = 28
Number of significantly mutated genes = 8
Number of selected clinical features = 3
Exclude genes that fewer than K tumors have mutations, K = 3

Survival analysis

For survival clinical features, the Kaplan-Meier survival curves of tumors with and without gene mutations were plotted and the statistical significance P values were estimated by logrank test (Bland and Altman 2004) using the 'survdiff' function in R

Student's t-test analysis

For continuous numerical clinical features, two-tailed Student's t test with unequal variance (Lehmann and Romano 2005) was applied to compare the clinical values between tumors with and without gene mutations using 't.test' function in R

Fisher's exact test

For binary or multi-class clinical features (nominal or ordinal), two-tailed Fisher's exact tests (Fisher 1922) were used to estimate the P values using the 'fisher.test' function in R

Q value calculation

For multiple hypothesis correction, Q value is the False Discovery Rate (FDR) analogue of the P value (Benjamini and Hochberg 1995), defined as the minimum FDR at which the test may be called significant. We used the 'Benjamini and Hochberg' method of 'p.adjust' function in R to convert P values into Q values.

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References

[1] Bland and Altman, Statistics notes: The logrank test, BMJ 328(7447):1073 (2004)

[2] Lehmann and Romano, Testing Statistical Hypotheses (3E ed.), New York: Springer. ISBN 0387988645 (2005)

[3] Fisher, R.A., On the interpretation of chi-square from contingency tables, and the calculation of P, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 85(1):87-94 (1922)

[4] Benjamini and Hochberg, Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 59:289-300 (1995)