Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Correlation between copy number variations of arm-level result and selected clinical features
(primary solid tumor cohort)
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/MD Anderson Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School)
Overview
Introduction

This pipeline computes the correlation between significant arm-level copy number variations (cnvs) and selected clinical features.

Summary

Testing the association between copy number variation 61 arm-level results and 3 clinical features across 61 patients, 2 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

  • 18p loss cnv correlated to 'AGE'.

  • 18q loss cnv correlated to 'AGE'.

Results
Overview of the results

Table 1.  Get Full Table Overview of the association between significant copy number variation of 61 arm-level results and 3 clinical features. Shown in the table are P values (Q values). Thresholded by Q value < 0.25, 2 significant findings detected.

Clinical
Features
Time
to
Death
AGE GENDER
nCNV (%) nWild-Type logrank test t-test Fisher's exact test
18p loss 7 (11%) 54 0.0213
(1.00)
0.000571
(0.101)
0.695
(1.00)
18q loss 9 (15%) 52 0.2
(1.00)
0.00109
(0.191)
0.71
(1.00)
1p gain 8 (13%) 53 0.807
(1.00)
0.237
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
1q gain 33 (54%) 28 0.71
(1.00)
0.73
(1.00)
0.423
(1.00)
2p gain 8 (13%) 53 0.738
(1.00)
0.115
(1.00)
0.124
(1.00)
2q gain 7 (11%) 54 0.867
(1.00)
0.227
(1.00)
0.087
(1.00)
4p gain 4 (7%) 57 0.931
(1.00)
0.455
(1.00)
0.129
(1.00)
5p gain 18 (30%) 43 0.304
(1.00)
0.227
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
5q gain 13 (21%) 48 0.197
(1.00)
0.201
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
6p gain 12 (20%) 49 0.123
(1.00)
0.79
(1.00)
0.509
(1.00)
6q gain 8 (13%) 53 0.00574
(1.00)
0.506
(1.00)
0.699
(1.00)
7p gain 17 (28%) 44 0.816
(1.00)
0.615
(1.00)
0.373
(1.00)
7q gain 18 (30%) 43 0.828
(1.00)
0.601
(1.00)
0.397
(1.00)
8p gain 11 (18%) 50 0.112
(1.00)
0.577
(1.00)
0.299
(1.00)
8q gain 31 (51%) 30 0.271
(1.00)
0.594
(1.00)
0.6
(1.00)
9p gain 3 (5%) 58 0.822
(1.00)
0.293
(1.00)
9q gain 3 (5%) 58 0.822
(1.00)
0.293
(1.00)
10p gain 5 (8%) 56 0.166
(1.00)
0.39
(1.00)
0.341
(1.00)
12q gain 3 (5%) 58 0.894
(1.00)
0.293
(1.00)
15q gain 5 (8%) 56 0.814
(1.00)
0.328
(1.00)
0.341
(1.00)
16p gain 3 (5%) 58 0.0077
(1.00)
0.149
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
17p gain 3 (5%) 58 0.467
(1.00)
0.711
(1.00)
0.293
(1.00)
17q gain 16 (26%) 45 0.0844
(1.00)
0.876
(1.00)
0.548
(1.00)
18q gain 3 (5%) 58 0.937
(1.00)
0.619
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
19p gain 5 (8%) 56 0.759
(1.00)
0.62
(1.00)
0.0524
(1.00)
19q gain 7 (11%) 54 0.795
(1.00)
0.822
(1.00)
0.087
(1.00)
20p gain 12 (20%) 49 0.238
(1.00)
0.0865
(1.00)
0.322
(1.00)
20q gain 13 (21%) 48 0.361
(1.00)
0.059
(1.00)
0.517
(1.00)
21q gain 4 (7%) 57 0.696
(1.00)
0.613
(1.00)
0.129
(1.00)
22q gain 6 (10%) 55 0.16
(1.00)
0.068
(1.00)
0.658
(1.00)
Xq gain 4 (7%) 57 0.228
(1.00)
0.223
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
1p loss 11 (18%) 50 0.689
(1.00)
0.511
(1.00)
0.504
(1.00)
1q loss 3 (5%) 58 0.862
(1.00)
0.134
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
2p loss 3 (5%) 58 0.293
(1.00)
2q loss 4 (7%) 57 0.0102
(1.00)
0.615
(1.00)
3p loss 5 (8%) 56 0.721
(1.00)
0.763
(1.00)
0.341
(1.00)
3q loss 3 (5%) 58 0.628
(1.00)
0.237
(1.00)
0.293
(1.00)
4p loss 9 (15%) 52 0.508
(1.00)
0.864
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
4q loss 15 (25%) 46 0.515
(1.00)
0.779
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
5q loss 4 (7%) 57 0.00925
(1.00)
0.953
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
6q loss 10 (16%) 51 0.258
(1.00)
0.944
(1.00)
0.473
(1.00)
7p loss 5 (8%) 56 0.489
(1.00)
0.661
(1.00)
0.0524
(1.00)
7q loss 7 (11%) 54 0.935
(1.00)
0.429
(1.00)
0.24
(1.00)
8p loss 28 (46%) 33 0.439
(1.00)
0.262
(1.00)
0.423
(1.00)
8q loss 5 (8%) 56 0.582
(1.00)
0.855
(1.00)
0.341
(1.00)
9p loss 15 (25%) 46 0.77
(1.00)
0.266
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
9q loss 13 (21%) 48 0.611
(1.00)
0.27
(1.00)
0.753
(1.00)
10p loss 3 (5%) 58 0.7
(1.00)
0.0302
(1.00)
0.547
(1.00)
10q loss 12 (20%) 49 0.514
(1.00)
0.588
(1.00)
0.742
(1.00)
11p loss 5 (8%) 56 0.691
(1.00)
0.279
(1.00)
0.341
(1.00)
11q loss 8 (13%) 53 0.244
(1.00)
0.375
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
12p loss 3 (5%) 58 0.489
(1.00)
0.509
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
13q loss 22 (36%) 39 0.212
(1.00)
0.162
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
14q loss 21 (34%) 40 0.64
(1.00)
0.549
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
15q loss 7 (11%) 54 0.924
(1.00)
0.363
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
16p loss 11 (18%) 50 0.39
(1.00)
0.89
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
16q loss 19 (31%) 42 0.902
(1.00)
0.743
(1.00)
0.571
(1.00)
17p loss 25 (41%) 36 0.245
(1.00)
0.372
(1.00)
0.787
(1.00)
19p loss 4 (7%) 57 0.23
(1.00)
0.474
(1.00)
0.287
(1.00)
21q loss 9 (15%) 52 0.0736
(1.00)
0.76
(1.00)
0.0203
(1.00)
22q loss 9 (15%) 52 0.624
(1.00)
0.696
(1.00)
0.0596
(1.00)
'18p loss mutation analysis' versus 'AGE'

P value = 0.000571 (t-test), Q value = 0.1

Table S1.  Gene #57: '18p loss mutation analysis' versus Clinical Feature #2: 'AGE'

nPatients Mean (Std.Dev)
ALL 56 61.8 (14.0)
18P LOSS MUTATED 7 73.6 (6.4)
18P LOSS WILD-TYPE 49 60.1 (14.0)

Figure S1.  Get High-res Image Gene #57: '18p loss mutation analysis' versus Clinical Feature #2: 'AGE'

'18q loss mutation analysis' versus 'AGE'

P value = 0.00109 (t-test), Q value = 0.19

Table S2.  Gene #58: '18q loss mutation analysis' versus Clinical Feature #2: 'AGE'

nPatients Mean (Std.Dev)
ALL 56 61.8 (14.0)
18Q LOSS MUTATED 9 71.6 (6.9)
18Q LOSS WILD-TYPE 47 60.0 (14.3)

Figure S2.  Get High-res Image Gene #58: '18q loss mutation analysis' versus Clinical Feature #2: 'AGE'

Methods & Data
Input
  • Mutation data file = broad_values_by_arm.mutsig.cluster.txt

  • Clinical data file = LIHC-TP.clin.merged.picked.txt

  • Number of patients = 61

  • Number of significantly arm-level cnvs = 61

  • Number of selected clinical features = 3

  • Exclude genes that fewer than K tumors have mutations, K = 3

Survival analysis

For survival clinical features, the Kaplan-Meier survival curves of tumors with and without gene mutations were plotted and the statistical significance P values were estimated by logrank test (Bland and Altman 2004) using the 'survdiff' function in R

Student's t-test analysis

For continuous numerical clinical features, two-tailed Student's t test with unequal variance (Lehmann and Romano 2005) was applied to compare the clinical values between tumors with and without gene mutations using 't.test' function in R

Fisher's exact test

For binary or multi-class clinical features (nominal or ordinal), two-tailed Fisher's exact tests (Fisher 1922) were used to estimate the P values using the 'fisher.test' function in R

Q value calculation

For multiple hypothesis correction, Q value is the False Discovery Rate (FDR) analogue of the P value (Benjamini and Hochberg 1995), defined as the minimum FDR at which the test may be called significant. We used the 'Benjamini and Hochberg' method of 'p.adjust' function in R to convert P values into Q values.

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.

References
[1] Bland and Altman, Statistics notes: The logrank test, BMJ 328(7447):1073 (2004)
[2] Lehmann and Romano, Testing Statistical Hypotheses (3E ed.), New York: Springer. ISBN 0387988645 (2005)
[3] Fisher, R.A., On the interpretation of chi-square from contingency tables, and the calculation of P, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 85(1):87-94 (1922)
[4] Benjamini and Hochberg, Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 59:289-300 (1995)