Ovarian Serous Cystadenocarcinoma: Correlation between mRNA expression and DNA methylation
Maintained by Richard Park (Boston University/Harvard Medical School)
Overview
Introduction

The role of general epigenetic mechanisms in carcinogenesis and tumor aggressiveness is well documented: CpG island hyper-methylation silences tumor suppressor genes, whereas hypo-methylation promotes the transcriptional activation of oncogenes and induces chromosomal instability. This pipeline calculates and identifies correlations between DNA methylation and gene expression profiles using the available array technologies.

Summary

The top 25 correlated methylation probe(s) per gene are displayed. Total number of matched samples = 549 Number of gene expression samples = 553 Number of methylation samples = 565

Results
Correlation Histogram

Figure 1.  Histogram of methylation correlation values. n is the number of matched samples between Level 3 CpG site methylation and Level 3 gene expression arrays. Number of Matched Samples = 549

Qvalue Summary Plots

Figure 2.  Plot 1. The estimated pi_0 versus the tuning parameter lambda. Plot 2. The q-values versus the p-values Plot 3. The number of significant tests versus each q-value cutoff Plot 4. The number of expected false positives versus the number of significant tests. The first is a plot of the estimate of pi_0 versus its tuning parameter lambda. In most cases, as lambda gets larger, the bias of the estimate decreases, yet the variance increases. Comparing your estimate of pi_0 to this plot allows one to guage its quality. The remaining three plots show how many tests are significant, as well as how many false positives to expect for each q-value cut-off.

Negative Correlation between Methylation and Gene Expression

Table 1.  Get Full Table Top 25 most negatively correlated methylation probe(s) per gene. Correlation Coefficient: See Methods & Data below. Expression Mean and Expression Variance: median and variance of gene expression levels of gene expression probes associated with the gene. Methylation Mean and Methylation Variance: median and variance of methylation levels of CpG methylation probes associated with the gene.

Meth_Probe Gene Chrom Position Corr_Spearman Pval_Spearman Qval Expr_Mean Meth_Mean
cg19580810 RAB25 1 154297806 -0.86 0 0 1.4 0.467249
cg02665570 LYPLAL1 1 217413963 -0.82 0 0 -0.72 0.366773
cg02377083 CCBP2 3 42826023 -0.77 0 0 -0.31 0.742907
cg11584936 BNIPL 1 149276212 -0.76 0 0 -0.025 NA
cg26757053 LYPLAL1 1 217413644 -0.76 4.4e-103 4.3e-102 -0.72 NA
cg24333473 ZNF597 16 3433429 -0.75 0 0 -0.67 NA
cg25023994 BANK1 4 102930796 -0.75 0 0 -1.2 0.370168
cg17612991 C3 19 6672016 -0.74 0 0 4.1 0.457844
cg04089739 C3 19 6670980 -0.74 0 0 4.1 0.621804
cg22424746 VTCN1 1 117554836 -0.74 0 0 1.3 0.445539
cg00332153 BANK1 4 102931033 -0.73 0 0 -1.2 0.492903
cg14654875 ZNF597 16 3433998 -0.72 0 0 -0.67 0.460821
cg09886641 SPESP1 15 67010072 -0.72 0 0 -2 0.774970
cg09243900 RAB25 1 154297468 -0.71 0 0 1.4 0.362905
cg15780361 ALS2CR11 2 202192343 -0.71 0 0 -2 0.563689
cg21488617 DNALI1 1 37795173 -0.71 0 0 0.47 0.305475
cg24691453 S100A4 1 151785008 -0.7 0 0 2.9 0.672859
cg02082342 VSIG2 11 124127583 -0.7 0 0 0.15 0.565655
cg27583102 KLK5 19 56147867 -0.7 0 0 1.8 0.451997
cg20775254 PROM2 2 95304432 -0.7 0 0 0.61 0.495159
cg05740244 LDHC 11 18390591 -0.69 0 0 -2.2 NA
cg27235662 CLDN16 3 191588680 -0.69 0 0 1.7 0.316613
cg00186701 TSPYL5 8 98359686 -0.69 0 0 0.62 0.367344
cg17966192 SULT1C4 2 108360548 -0.68 0 0 -2.1 NA
cg10329418 PON3 7 94864117 -0.68 0 0 -1.1 0.578918
cg08687163 MST1R 3 49915857 -0.67 0 0 -0.045 0.702503
Methods & Data
Input

Methylation Array Platforms: Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation27, Illumina DNA Methylation OMA002, Illumina DNA Methylation OMA003

  • methylation file = /xchip/cga/gdac-prod/tcga-gdac/jobResults/GDAC_MergeDataFilesPipeline/OV/1269874/2.GDAC_MergeDataFiles.Finished/OV.methylation__humanmethylation27__jhu_usc_edu__Level_3__within_bioassay_data_set_function__data.data.txt

Gene Expression Platforms: Agilent 244K Gene Expression G4502A-07-1, Agilent 244K Gene Expression G4502A-07-2, Agilent 244K Gene Expression G4502A-07-3, Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array, Affymetrix HT Human Genome U133 Array

  • gene expression file = /xchip/cga/gdac-prod/tcga-gdac/jobResults/GDAC_mRNA_Preprocess_Median/OV/1271189/0.GDAC_mRNA_Preprocess_Median.Finished/OV.medianexp.txt

Correlation Coefficient

Level 3 methylation and gene expression arrays were paired on the basis of Entrez Gene ID concordance. The association between CpG site methylation and the level of expression of the corresponding genes was determined by calculating a correlation measure between the two platforms

  • correlation measure = Spearman

Download Results

This is an experimental feature. The full results of the analysis summarized in this report can be downloaded from the TCGA Data Coordination Center.

Meta
  • Maintainer = Richard Park