Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma: 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 830.5, 1599, 2048, 2462, 2881, 3352, 3844, 4398, 5130.5, 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 489 469 459
Genes 22749 18294 17526

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
91833 WDR20 14q32.31 0.7718 0 0
91754 NEK9 14q24.3 0.731 0 0
22938 SNW1 14q24.3 0.7288 0 0
93487 MAPK1IP1L 14q22.3 0.7244 0 0
91782 CHMP7 8p21.3 0.7091 0 0
11154 AP4S1 14q12 0.7062 0 0
10342 TFG 3q12.2 0.7055 0 0
9878 TOX4 14q11.2 0.7003 0 0
10001 MED6 14q24.2 0.6991 0 0
55234 SMU1 9p21.1 0.6976 0 0
25983 NGDN 14q11.2 0.6965 0 0
8816 DCAF5 14q24.1 0.679 0 0
122553 TRAPPC6B 14q21.1 0.6753 0 0
55246 CCDC25 8p21.1 0.6752 0 0
23186 RCOR1 14q32.31 0.6751 0 0
11198 SUPT16H 14q11.2 0.6742 0 0
28976 ACAD9 3q21.3 0.6734 0 0
9861 PSMD6 3p14.1 0.6733 0 0
79882 ZC3H14 14q31.3 0.672 0 0
55585 UBE2Q1 1q21.3 0.6709 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.

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.