Colon/Rectal Adenocarcinoma: Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School)
Overview
Introduction

A TCGA sample is profiled to detect the copy number variations and expressions of genes. This pipeline attempts to correlate copy number and Rnaseq data of genes across samples to determine if the copy number variations also result in differential expressions. This report contains the calculated correlation coefficients based on measurements of genomic copy number (log2) values and RNAseq expression of the corresponding feature across patients. High positive/low negative correlation coefficients indicate that genomic alterations result in differences in the expressions of mRNAseq the genomic regions transcribe.

Summary

The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are 918.9, 1938.8, 2579, 3216, 3781, 4341.4, 4925, 5559, 6352.1, respectively.

Results
Correlation results

Number of genes and samples used for the calculation are shown in Table 1. Figure 1 shows the distribution of calculated correlation coefficients and quantile-quantile plot of the calculated correlation coefficients against a normal distribution. Table 2 shows the top 20 features ordered by the value of correlation coefficients.

Table 1.  Counts of mRNAseq and number of samples in copy number and expression data sets and common to both

Category Copy number Expression Common
Sample 574 83 79
Genes 22749 18344 17580

Figure 1.  Summary figures. Left: histogram showing the distribution of the calculated correlations across samples for all Genes. Right: QQ plot of the calculated correlations across samples. The QQ plot is used to plot the quantiles of the calculated correlation coefficients against that derived from a normal distribution. Points deviating from the blue line indicate deviation from normality.

Table 2.  Get Full Table Top 20 features (defined by the feature column) ranked by correlation coefficients

Locus ID Gene Symbol Cytoband cor p-value q-value
57325 CSRP2BP 20p11.23 0.8817 0 0
91782 CHMP7 8p21.3 0.8767 0 0
55968 NSFL1C 20p13 0.8704 0 0
84961 FBXL20 17q12 0.8561 0 0
55140 ELP3 8p21.1 0.8503 0 0
8795 TNFRSF10B 8p21.3 0.8398 0 0
128637 TBC1D20 20p13 0.8386 0 0
6143 RPL19 17q12 0.8377 0 0
10928 RALBP1 18p11.22 0.8339 0 0
1457 CSNK2A1 20p13 0.8324 0 0
55756 INTS9 8p21.1 0.8209 0 0
54915 YTHDF1 20q13.33 0.8202 0 0
5516 PPP2CB 8p12 0.8201 0 0
6780 STAU1 20q13.13 0.8196 0 0
23514 KIAA0146 8q11.21 0.8194 0 0
51669 TMEM66 8p12 0.8157 0 0
5291 PIK3CB 3q22.3 0.8132 0 0
57805 KIAA1967 8p21.3 0.811 0 0
5747 PTK2 8q24.3 0.8083 0 0
64412 GZF1 20p11.21 0.8071 0 0
Methods & Data
Input

Gene level (TCGA Level III) mRNAseq expression data and copy number data of corresponding gene derived by GISTIC pipelinePearson correlation coefficients were calculated for each pair of genes shared by the two data sets across all the samples that were common.

Correlation across sample

Pairwise correlations between the log2 copy numbers and expressions of each gene across samples were calculated using Pearson correlation.

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