Analysis Overview for Colon/Rectal Adenocarcinoma
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School)
Overview
Introduction

This is the analysis overview for Firehose run "13 September 2012".

Summary

Note: These results are offered to the community as an additional reference point, enabling a wide range of cancer biologists, clinical investigators, and genome and computational scientists to easily incorporate TCGA into the backdrop of ongoing research. While every effort is made to ensure that Firehose input data and algorithms are of the highest possible quality, these analyses have not been reviewed by domain experts.

Results
  • Sequence and Copy Number Analyses

    • Copy number analysis (GISTIC2)
      View Report | There were 575 tumor samples used in this analysis: 24 significant arm-level results, 28 significant focal amplifications, and 47 significant focal deletions were found.

    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig)
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    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig)
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  • Clustering Analyses

    • Clustering of copy number data: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 575 samples using the 75 copy number focal regions was identified for k = 4 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

    • Clustering of Methylation: consensus NMF
      View Report | The 6945 most variable methylated genes were selected based on variation. The variation cutoff are set for each tumor type empirically by fitting a bimodal distriution. For genes with multiple methylation probes, we chose the most variable one to represent the gene. Consensus NMF clustering of 349 samples and 6945 genes identified 3 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 8 and the average silhouette width calculation for selecting the robust clusters.

    • Clustering of RPPA data: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 399 samples using the 150 most variable proteins was identified for k = 4 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

    • Clustering of RPPA data: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | The 150 most variable proteins were selected. Consensus average linkage hierarchical clustering of 399 samples and 150 proteins identified 4 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 8 and the average silhouette width calculation for selecting the robust clusters.

    • Clustering of mRNA expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 224 samples using the 1500 most variable genes was identified for k = 4 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

    • Clustering of mRNA expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | The 1500 most variable genes were selected. Consensus average linkage hierarchical clustering of 224 samples and 1500 genes identified 3 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 8 and the average silhouette width calculation for selecting the robust clusters.

    • Clustering of mRNAseq gene expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 83 samples using the 1500 most variable genes was identified for k = 4 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

    • Clustering of mRNAseq gene expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | The 1500 most variable genes were selected. Consensus average linkage hierarchical clustering of 83 samples and 1500 genes identified 4 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 8 and the average silhouette width calculation for selecting the robust clusters.

    • Clustering of miRseq expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | We filtered the data to 150 most variable miRs. Consensus NMF clustering of 521 samples and 150 miRs identified 3 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 8 and the average silhouette width calculation for selecting the robust clusters.

    • Clustering of miRseq expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | We filtered the data to 150 most variable miRs. Consensus average linkage hierarchical clustering of 521 samples and 150 miRs identified 3 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 8 and the average silhouette width calculation for selecting the robust clusters.

  • Correlation Analyses

    • Correlation between copy number variations of arm-level result and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between copy number variation 78 arm-level results and 11 clinical features across 575 patients, 22 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between copy number variation genes and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between copy number variation of 75 peak regions and 11 clinical features across 575 patients, 53 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between gene methylation status and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 17423 genes and 2 clinical features across 6 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, no clinical feature related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between molecular cancer subtypes and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between subtypes identified by 10 different clustering approaches and 11 clinical features across 588 patients, 33 significant findings detected with P value < 0.05.

    • Correlation between gene mutation status and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between mutation status of 345 genes and 10 clinical features across 224 patients, 2 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between RPPA expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 171 genes and 11 clinical features across 399 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, 5 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between mRNA expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 17814 genes and 10 clinical features across 224 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, 6 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between mRNAseq expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 18344 genes and 9 clinical features across 83 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, 5 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between miRseq expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 420 genes and 11 clinical features across 521 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, 9 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlations between copy number and mRNA expression
      View Report | The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are -0.0307, 0.0222, 0.0714, 0.1338, 0.204, 0.28, 0.34934, 0.4228, 0.51106, respectively.

    • Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
      View Report | The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are 888, 1953, 2596, 3174, 3732, 4279, 4859, 5512, 6310, respectively.

    • Correlation between mRNA expression and DNA methylation
      View Report | The top 25 correlated methylation probes per gene are displayed. Total number of matched samples = 6. Number of gene expression samples = 83. Number of methylation samples = 6.

  • Other Analyses

    • Association of mutation, copy number alteration, and subtype markers with pathways
      View Report | There are 184 genes with significant mutation (Q value <= 0.1) and 490 genes with significant copy number alteration (Q value <= 0.25). The identified marker genes (Q value <= 0.01 or within top 2000) are 2000 for subtype 1, 2000 for subtype 2, 2000 for subtype 3. Pathways significantly enriched with these genes (Q value <= 0.01) are identified :

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNA expression data
      View Report | There were 56 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNA expression and copy number data
      View Report | There were 50 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

Methods & Data
Input
  • Run Prefix = analyses__2012_09_13

  • Summary Report Date = Mon Oct 29 22:55:55 2012

  • Protection = FALSE