Analysis Overview for Thyroid Adenocarcinoma
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/MD Anderson Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School)
Overview
Introduction

This is the analysis overview for Firehose run "21 December 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 401 tumor samples used in this analysis: 18 significant arm-level results, 0 significant focal amplifications, and 27 significant focal deletions were found.

    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig v2.0)
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    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig vS2N)
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  • Clustering Analyses

    • Clustering of copy number data: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 401 samples using the 27 copy number focal regions was identified for k = 3 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 5193 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 412 samples and 5193 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 224 samples using the 150 most variable proteins was identified for k = 3 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 224 samples and 150 proteins 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 379 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 379 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 miRseq expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | We filtered the data to 150 most variable miRs. Consensus NMF clustering of 348 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 348 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 29 arm-level results and 6 clinical features across 214 patients, no significant finding 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 17 peak regions and 6 clinical features across 214 patients, 2 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between gene methylation status and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 17081 genes and 5 clinical features across 195 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, 5 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between molecular cancer subtypes and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between subtypes identified by 8 different clustering approaches and 6 clinical features across 218 patients, 18 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 19 genes and 5 clinical features across 201 patients, 3 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between RPPA expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 175 genes and 5 clinical features across 155 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, 4 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between mRNAseq expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 18015 genes and 5 clinical features across 198 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 531 genes and 5 clinical features across 210 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, 3 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
      View Report | The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are 442, 1182.6, 1851, 2199, 2537, 2905, 3314.6, 3825, 4516.2, 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 = 379. Number of gene expression samples = 379. Number of methylation samples = 379.

  • Other Analyses

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNASeq expression data
      View Report | There were 59 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNASeq expression and copy number data
      View Report | There were 54 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

Methods & Data
Input
  • Run Prefix = analyses__2012_12_21

  • Summary Report Date = Fri Jan 25 12:13:08 2013

  • Protection = FALSE