Correlation between copy number variations of arm-level result and selected clinical features
Uterine Carcinosarcoma (Primary solid tumor)
23 September 2013  |  analyses__2013_09_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 copy number variations of arm-level result and selected clinical features. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C1GQ6W5X
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 56 arm-level events and 2 clinical features across 14 patients, no significant finding detected with Q value < 0.25.

  • No arm-level cnvs related to clinical features.

Results
Overview of the results

Table 1.  Get Full Table Overview of the association between significant copy number variation of 56 arm-level events and 2 clinical features. Shown in the table are P values (Q values). Thresholded by Q value < 0.25, no significant finding detected.

Clinical
Features
Time
to
Death
AGE
nCNV (%) nWild-Type logrank test t-test
1P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 7 (50%) 7 0.74
(1.00)
0.272
(1.00)
1Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 8 (57%) 6 0.282
(1.00)
0.116
(1.00)
2P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.0878
(1.00)
0.4
(1.00)
2Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.364
(1.00)
0.141
(1.00)
3P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.436
(1.00)
0.93
(1.00)
3Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 5 (36%) 9 0.493
(1.00)
0.427
(1.00)
4P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.963
(1.00)
0.73
(1.00)
5P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.548
(1.00)
0.354
(1.00)
6P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.986
(1.00)
0.859
(1.00)
6Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 5 (36%) 9 0.46
(1.00)
0.581
(1.00)
8P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.115
(1.00)
0.742
(1.00)
8Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.256
(1.00)
0.575
(1.00)
10P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.179
(1.00)
0.205
(1.00)
10Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 5 (36%) 9 0.887
(1.00)
0.841
(1.00)
11Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.465
(1.00)
0.7
(1.00)
12P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.289
(1.00)
0.686
(1.00)
12Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.177
(1.00)
0.356
(1.00)
13Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.152
(1.00)
0.685
(1.00)
16P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.361
(1.00)
0.13
(1.00)
17P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.652
(1.00)
0.207
(1.00)
17Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.844
(1.00)
0.686
(1.00)
18P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.367
(1.00)
0.0641
(1.00)
19P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.912
(1.00)
0.994
(1.00)
19Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 7 (50%) 7 0.586
(1.00)
0.678
(1.00)
20P GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 9 (64%) 5 0.942
(1.00)
0.169
(1.00)
20Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 11 (79%) 3 0.392
(1.00)
0.116
(1.00)
21Q GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 7 (50%) 7 0.71
(1.00)
0.00744
(0.833)
XQ GAIN MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.768
(1.00)
0.893
(1.00)
3P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 5 (36%) 9 0.364
(1.00)
0.588
(1.00)
3Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.314
(1.00)
0.736
(1.00)
4P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.144
(1.00)
0.293
(1.00)
4Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 8 (57%) 6 0.0314
(1.00)
0.151
(1.00)
5Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 5 (36%) 9 0.202
(1.00)
0.531
(1.00)
7P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.338
(1.00)
0.354
(1.00)
7Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.923
(1.00)
0.133
(1.00)
8P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.323
(1.00)
0.886
(1.00)
9P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 7 (50%) 7 0.127
(1.00)
0.396
(1.00)
9Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 8 (57%) 6 0.434
(1.00)
0.159
(1.00)
10P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.136
(1.00)
0.0596
(1.00)
11P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 7 (50%) 7 0.015
(1.00)
0.47
(1.00)
11Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.144
(1.00)
0.774
(1.00)
12P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 5 (36%) 9 0.903
(1.00)
0.791
(1.00)
12Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.823
(1.00)
0.937
(1.00)
13Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.822
(1.00)
0.894
(1.00)
14Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 9 (64%) 5 0.331
(1.00)
0.47
(1.00)
15Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 9 (64%) 5 0.463
(1.00)
0.223
(1.00)
16P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 7 (50%) 7 0.434
(1.00)
0.435
(1.00)
16Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 9 (64%) 5 0.202
(1.00)
0.928
(1.00)
17P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 6 (43%) 8 0.667
(1.00)
0.958
(1.00)
18P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.436
(1.00)
0.93
(1.00)
18Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.436
(1.00)
0.983
(1.00)
19P LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.56
(1.00)
0.971
(1.00)
19Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 4 (29%) 10 0.69
(1.00)
0.603
(1.00)
21Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 5 (36%) 9 0.765
(1.00)
0.0336
(1.00)
22Q LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 8 (57%) 6 0.84
(1.00)
0.554
(1.00)
XQ LOSS MUTATION ANALYSIS 3 (21%) 11 0.0679
(1.00)
0.247
(1.00)
Methods & Data
Input
  • Copy number data file = transformed.cor.cli.txt

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

  • Number of patients = 14

  • Number of significantly arm-level cnvs = 56

  • Number of selected clinical features = 2

  • Exclude regions 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

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

In addition to the links below, the full results of the analysis summarized in this report can also be downloaded programmatically using firehose_get, or interactively from either the Broad GDAC website or TCGA Data Coordination Center Portal.

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] 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)