Analysis Overview
Esophageal Carcinoma (Primary solid tumor)
22 February 2013  |  analyses__2013_02_22
Maintainer Information
Citation Information
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/MD Anderson Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School)
Cite as Broad Institute TCGA Genome Data Analysis Center (2013): Analysis Overview for Esophageal Carcinoma (Primary solid tumor cohort) - 22 February 2013. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C1QZ2843
Overview
Introduction

This is an overview of Esophageal Carcinoma analysis pipelines from Firehose run "22 February 2013".

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
  • Clustering Analyses

    • Clustering of Methylation: consensus NMF
      View Report | The 8561 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 20 samples and 8561 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.

Methods & Data
Input
  • Summary Report Date = Mon Aug 5 19:21:12 2013

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