Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (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): Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C1HM56H1
Overview
Introduction

A TCGA sample is profiled to detect the copy number variations and expressions of genes. This pipeline attempts to correlate copy number and Rnaseq data of genes across samples to determine if the copy number variations also result in differential expressions. This report contains the calculated correlation coefficients based on measurements of genomic copy number (log2) values and RNAseq expression of the corresponding feature across patients. High positive/low negative correlation coefficients indicate that genomic alterations result in differences in the expressions of mRNAseq the genomic regions transcribe.

Summary

The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are 897.7, 2190, 2913, 3547, 4157, 4755, 5397, 6124.6, 6975.3, respectively.

Results
Correlation results

Number of genes and samples used for the calculation are shown in Table 1. Figure 1 shows the distribution of calculated correlation coefficients and quantile-quantile plot of the calculated correlation coefficients against a normal distribution. Table 2 shows the top 20 features ordered by the value of correlation coefficients.

Table 1.  Counts of mRNAseq and number of samples in copy number and expression data sets and common to both

Category Copy number Expression Common
Sample 50 40 40
Genes 23778 18603 18508

Figure 1.  Summary figures. Left: histogram showing the distribution of the calculated correlations across samples for all Genes. Right: QQ plot of the calculated correlations across samples. The QQ plot is used to plot the quantiles of the calculated correlation coefficients against that derived from a normal distribution. Points deviating from the blue line indicate deviation from normality.

Table 2.  Get Full Table Top 20 features (defined by the feature column) ranked by correlation coefficients

Locus ID Gene Symbol Cytoband cor p-value q-value
79602 ADIPOR2 12p13.33 0.9308 0 0
79591 C10orf76 10q24.32 0.9195 0 0
11011 TLK2 17q23.2 0.8958 5.77315972805081e-15 1.65966704728998e-11
5927 KDM5A 12p13.33 0.8924 1.06581410364015e-14 2.29800052701689e-11
144699 FBXL14 12p13.33 0.8906 1.4210854715202e-14 2.45120056215135e-11
65125 WNK1 12p13.33 0.8854 3.28626015289046e-14 4.72366774997917e-11
57003 CCDC47 17q23.3 0.8734 1.95177207729103e-13 2.21182550725376e-10
23660 ZKSCAN5 7q22.1 0.873 2.05169214950729e-13 2.21182550725376e-10
57403 RAB22A 20q13.32 0.8702 3.03757019537443e-13 2.91080066755473e-10
25926 NOL11 17q24.2 0.8677 4.2899017671516e-13 3.6997808484972e-10
11333 PDAP1 7q22.1 0.8661 5.3268500721515e-13 4.17644186690419e-10
11325 DDX42 17q23.3 0.8621 8.99724739156227e-13 6.1132706327693e-10
7551 ZNF3 7q22.1 0.8619 9.2148511043888e-13 6.1132706327693e-10
10552 ARPC1A 7q22.1 0.8589 1.34336985979644e-12 8.27553761217393e-10
196513 DCP1B 12p13.33 0.8492 4.36628511124582e-12 2.51043790907001e-09
56683 C21orf59 21q22.11 0.848 5.01643171446631e-12 2.57939294449181e-09
55234 SMU1 9p21.1 0.8479 5.08437736357337e-12 2.57939294449181e-09
9221 NOLC1 10q24.32 0.8473 5.44897460486027e-12 2.61078393208308e-09
51096 UTP18 17q21.33 0.8466 5.88862292261183e-12 2.67293745510912e-09
51204 TACO1 17q23.3 0.844 7.90567611375081e-12 3.40908378182956e-09
Methods & Data
Input

Gene level (TCGA Level III) mRNAseq expression data and copy number data of corresponding gene derived by GISTIC pipelinePearson correlation coefficients were calculated for each pair of genes shared by the two data sets across all the samples that were common.

Correlation across sample

Pairwise correlations between the log2 copy numbers and expressions of each gene across samples were calculated using Pearson correlation.

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.