Correlation between gene mutation status and selected clinical features
Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma (Primary solid tumor)
23 May 2013  |  analyses__2013_05_23
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): Correlation between gene mutation status and selected clinical features. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C1F47M4C
Overview
Introduction

This pipeline computes the correlation between significantly recurrent gene mutations and selected clinical features.

Summary

Testing the association between mutation status of 10 genes and 8 clinical features across 293 patients, 5 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

  • BAP1 mutation correlated to 'GENDER',  'DISTANT.METASTASIS', and 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'.

  • TP53 mutation correlated to 'Time to Death'.

  • EBPL mutation correlated to 'GENDER'.

Results
Overview of the results

Table 1.  Get Full Table Overview of the association between mutation status of 10 genes and 8 clinical features. Shown in the table are P values (Q values). Thresholded by Q value < 0.25, 5 significant findings detected.

Clinical
Features
Time
to
Death
AGE GENDER KARNOFSKY
PERFORMANCE
SCORE
DISTANT
METASTASIS
LYMPH
NODE
METASTASIS
TUMOR
STAGECODE
NEOPLASM
DISEASESTAGE
nMutated (%) nWild-Type logrank test t-test Fisher's exact test t-test Fisher's exact test Fisher's exact test t-test Fisher's exact test
BAP1 27 (9%) 266 0.0136
(0.76)
0.742
(1.00)
0.00238
(0.14)
0.00411
(0.238)
0.108
(1.00)
0.000291
(0.018)
TP53 6 (2%) 287 0.000354
(0.0216)
0.259
(1.00)
0.188
(1.00)
0.579
(1.00)
0.169
(1.00)
0.0221
(1.00)
EBPL 6 (2%) 287 0.48
(1.00)
0.527
(1.00)
0.00161
(0.0968)
1
(1.00)
0.0384
(1.00)
0.0758
(1.00)
PBRM1 107 (37%) 186 0.533
(1.00)
0.813
(1.00)
0.309
(1.00)
0.429
(1.00)
0.593
(1.00)
0.413
(1.00)
0.939
(1.00)
SV2C 3 (1%) 290 0.731
(1.00)
0.0205
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
0.205
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
VHL 138 (47%) 155 0.668
(1.00)
0.0301
(1.00)
0.176
(1.00)
0.359
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
0.491
(1.00)
0.145
(1.00)
SETD2 34 (12%) 259 0.762
(1.00)
0.0994
(1.00)
0.181
(1.00)
0.101
(1.00)
0.72
(1.00)
0.0591
(1.00)
KDM5C 18 (6%) 275 0.0803
(1.00)
0.206
(1.00)
0.00486
(0.277)
1
(1.00)
0.741
(1.00)
0.857
(1.00)
PTEN 9 (3%) 284 0.769
(1.00)
0.219
(1.00)
0.503
(1.00)
0.613
(1.00)
0.0299
(1.00)
0.226
(1.00)
TOR1A 3 (1%) 290 0.0532
(1.00)
0.704
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
0.0562
(1.00)
1
(1.00)
'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus 'GENDER'

P value = 0.00238 (Fisher's exact test), Q value = 0.14

Table S1.  Gene #4: 'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #3: 'GENDER'

nPatients FEMALE MALE
ALL 102 191
BAP1 MUTATED 17 10
BAP1 WILD-TYPE 85 181

Figure S1.  Get High-res Image Gene #4: 'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #3: 'GENDER'

'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus 'DISTANT.METASTASIS'

P value = 0.00411 (Fisher's exact test), Q value = 0.24

Table S2.  Gene #4: 'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #5: 'DISTANT.METASTASIS'

nPatients M0 M1
ALL 254 39
BAP1 MUTATED 18 9
BAP1 WILD-TYPE 236 30

Figure S2.  Get High-res Image Gene #4: 'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #5: 'DISTANT.METASTASIS'

'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'

P value = 0.000291 (Fisher's exact test), Q value = 0.018

Table S3.  Gene #4: 'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #8: 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'

nPatients STAGE I STAGE II STAGE III STAGE IV
ALL 144 32 77 40
BAP1 MUTATED 5 5 7 10
BAP1 WILD-TYPE 139 27 70 30

Figure S3.  Get High-res Image Gene #4: 'BAP1 MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #8: 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'

'TP53 MUTATION STATUS' versus 'Time to Death'

P value = 0.000354 (logrank test), Q value = 0.022

Table S4.  Gene #7: 'TP53 MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #1: 'Time to Death'

nPatients nDeath Duration Range (Median), Month
ALL 291 77 0.1 - 109.6 (34.3)
TP53 MUTATED 6 3 0.2 - 25.7 (9.8)
TP53 WILD-TYPE 285 74 0.1 - 109.6 (35.2)

Figure S4.  Get High-res Image Gene #7: 'TP53 MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #1: 'Time to Death'

'EBPL MUTATION STATUS' versus 'GENDER'

P value = 0.00161 (Fisher's exact test), Q value = 0.097

Table S5.  Gene #9: 'EBPL MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #3: 'GENDER'

nPatients FEMALE MALE
ALL 102 191
EBPL MUTATED 6 0
EBPL WILD-TYPE 96 191

Figure S5.  Get High-res Image Gene #9: 'EBPL MUTATION STATUS' versus Clinical Feature #3: 'GENDER'

Methods & Data
Input
  • Mutation data file = KIRC-TP.mutsig.cluster.txt

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

  • Number of patients = 293

  • Number of significantly mutated genes = 10

  • Number of selected clinical features = 8

  • 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)