Correlation between mRNAseq expression and clinical features
Adrenocortical Carcinoma (Primary solid tumor)
16 April 2014 | analyses__2014_04_16
Maintainer Information
Citation Information
doi:10.7908/C18G8J92
Maintained by Juok Cho (Broad Institute)
Cite as Broad Institute TCGA Genome Data Analysis Center (2014): Correlation between mRNAseq expression and clinical features. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C18G8J92
Overview
Introduction

This pipeline uses various statistical tests to identify mRNAs whose expression levels correlated to selected clinical features.

Summary

Testing the association between 17733 genes and 6 clinical features across 34 samples, statistically thresholded by Q value < 0.05, 4 clinical features related to at least one genes.

- 1 gene correlated to 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'.

- CBFB|865

- 3 genes correlated to 'PATHOLOGY.T.STAGE'.

- CBFB|865 , CHTF18|63922 , POLD1|5424

- 18 genes correlated to 'PATHOLOGY.N.STAGE'.

- FKTN|2218 , FAM105B|90268 , GTPBP10|85865 , RNF31|55072 , C3ORF19|51244 , ...

- 12 genes correlated to 'GENDER'.

- XIST|7503 , TSIX|9383 , RPS4Y1|6192 , PRKY|5616 , DDX3Y|8653 , ...

- No genes correlated to 'Time to Death', and 'AGE'.

Results
Overview of the results

Complete statistical result table is provided in Supplement Table 1

Table 1. Get Full Table This table shows the clinical features, statistical methods used, and the number of genes that are significantly associated with each clinical feature at Q value < 0.05.

Clinical feature | Statistical test | Significant genes | Associated with |  | Associated with |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Time to Death | Cox regression test | N=0 |  |  |  |
AGE | Spearman correlation test | N=0 |  |  |  |
NEOPLASM DISEASESTAGE | ANOVA test | N=1 |  |  |  |
PATHOLOGY T STAGE | Spearman correlation test | N=3 | higher stage | N=3 | lower stage | N=0
PATHOLOGY N STAGE | t test | N=18 | class1 | N=13 | class0 | N=5
GENDER | t test | N=12 | male | N=10 | female | N=2

Clinical variable #1: 'Time to Death'

No gene related to 'Time to Death'.

Table S1. Basic characteristics of clinical feature: 'Time to Death'

Time to Death | Duration (Months) | 6.9-121.2 (median=29.8)
| censored | N = 26
| death | N = 8
| Significant markers | N = 0

Clinical variable #2: 'AGE'

No gene related to 'AGE'.

Table S2. Basic characteristics of clinical feature: 'AGE'

AGE | Mean (SD) | 50.82 (14)
| Significant markers | N = 0

Clinical variable #3: 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'

One gene related to 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'.

Table S3. Basic characteristics of clinical feature: 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'

NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE | Labels | N
| STAGE I | 4
| STAGE II | 13
| STAGE III | 4
| STAGE IV | 8
| Significant markers | N = 1

List of one gene differentially expressed by 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'

Table S4. Get Full Table List of one gene differentially expressed by 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'

| ANOVA_P | Q
--- | --- | ---
CBFB|865 | 2.635e-06 | 0.0467

Figure S1. Get High-res Image As an example, this figure shows the association of CBFB|865 to 'NEOPLASM.DISEASESTAGE'. P value = 2.64e-06 with ANOVA analysis.

Clinical variable #4: 'PATHOLOGY.T.STAGE'

3 genes related to 'PATHOLOGY.T.STAGE'.

Table S5. Basic characteristics of clinical feature: 'PATHOLOGY.T.STAGE'

PATHOLOGY.T.STAGE | Mean (SD) | 2.55 (1.1)
|  | N
| 1 | 4
| 2 | 14
| 3 | 2
| 4 | 9
| Significant markers | N = 3
| pos. correlated | 3
| neg. correlated | 0

List of 3 genes significantly correlated to 'PATHOLOGY.T.STAGE' by Spearman correlation test

Table S6. Get Full Table List of 3 genes significantly correlated to 'PATHOLOGY.T.STAGE' by Spearman correlation test

| SpearmanCorr | corrP | Q
--- | --- | --- | ---
CBFB|865 | 0.8406 | 1.153e-08 | 0.000204
CHTF18|63922 | 0.7677 | 1.174e-06 | 0.0208
POLD1|5424 | 0.7543 | 2.285e-06 | 0.0405

Figure S2. Get High-res Image As an example, this figure shows the association of CBFB|865 to 'PATHOLOGY.T.STAGE'. P value = 1.15e-08 with Spearman correlation analysis.

Clinical variable #5: 'PATHOLOGY.N.STAGE'

18 genes related to 'PATHOLOGY.N.STAGE'.

Table S7. Basic characteristics of clinical feature: 'PATHOLOGY.N.STAGE'

PATHOLOGY.N.STAGE | Labels | N
| class0 | 26
| class1 | 4
| Significant markers | N = 18
| Higher in class1 | 13
| Higher in class0 | 5

List of top 10 genes differentially expressed by 'PATHOLOGY.N.STAGE'

Table S8. Get Full Table List of top 10 genes differentially expressed by 'PATHOLOGY.N.STAGE'

| T(pos if higher in 'class1') | ttestP | Q | AUC
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
FKTN|2218 | 7.88 | 1.39e-08 | 0.000233 | 0.9038
FAM105B|90268 | 8.07 | 3.705e-08 | 0.000622 | 0.9904
GTPBP10|85865 | 7.23 | 8.11e-08 | 0.00136 | 0.9423
RNF31|55072 | 8.24 | 2.022e-07 | 0.00339 | 0.9904
C3ORF19|51244 | -6.35 | 7.393e-07 | 0.0124 | 0.9423
JKAMP|51528 | 7.17 | 7.728e-07 | 0.013 | 0.9519
C6ORF108|10591 | -6.24 | 1.002e-06 | 0.0168 | 0.8654
UTP15|84135 | 6.49 | 1.002e-06 | 0.0168 | 0.9231
ABLIM2|84448 | 6.32 | 1.055e-06 | 0.0177 | 0.9712
MAGED4B|81557 | 7.26 | 1.183e-06 | 0.0198 | 0.9583

Figure S3. Get High-res Image As an example, this figure shows the association of FKTN|2218 to 'PATHOLOGY.N.STAGE'. P value = 1.39e-08 with T-test analysis.

Clinical variable #6: 'GENDER'

12 genes related to 'GENDER'.

Table S9. Basic characteristics of clinical feature: 'GENDER'

GENDER | Labels | N
| FEMALE | 17
| MALE | 17
| Significant markers | N = 12
| Higher in MALE | 10
| Higher in FEMALE | 2

List of top 10 genes differentially expressed by 'GENDER'

Table S10. Get Full Table List of top 10 genes differentially expressed by 'GENDER'

| T(pos if higher in 'MALE') | ttestP | Q | AUC
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
XIST|7503 | -16.4 | 4.761e-17 | 8.43e-13 | 1
TSIX|9383 | -17.3 | 2.678e-15 | 4.74e-11 | 1
RPS4Y1|6192 | 14.02 | 2.415e-13 | 4.27e-09 | 1
PRKY|5616 | 14.84 | 1.211e-12 | 2.14e-08 | 1
DDX3Y|8653 | 14.44 | 1.875e-12 | 3.32e-08 | 1
KDM5D|8284 | 14.32 | 7.014e-12 | 1.24e-07 | 1
EIF1AY|9086 | 13.17 | 4.278e-10 | 7.57e-06 | 1
USP9Y|8287 | 12.19 | 7.551e-10 | 1.34e-05 | 1
ZFY|7544 | 9.64 | 3.652e-09 | 6.46e-05 | 1
TTTY15|64595 | 10.04 | 1.008e-08 | 0.000178 | 1

Figure S4. Get High-res Image As an example, this figure shows the association of XIST|7503 to 'GENDER'. P value = 4.76e-17 with T-test analysis.

Methods & Data
Input

- Expresson data file = ACC-TP.uncv2.mRNAseq_RSEM_normalized_log2.txt

- Clinical data file = ACC-TP.merged_data.txt

- Number of patients = 34

- Number of genes = 17733

- Number of clinical features = 6

Survival analysis

For survival clinical features, Wald's test in univariate Cox regression analysis with proportional hazards model (Andersen and Gill 1982) was used to estimate the P values using the 'coxph' function in R. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were plot using the four quartile subgroups of patients based on expression levels

Correlation analysis

For continuous numerical clinical features, Spearman's rank correlation coefficients (Spearman 1904) and two-tailed P values were estimated using 'cor.test' function in R

ANOVA analysis

For multi-class clinical features (ordinal or nominal), one-way analysis of variance (Howell 2002) was applied to compare the log2-expression levels between different clinical classes using 'anova' function in R

Student's t-test analysis

For two-class clinical features, two-tailed Student's t test with unequal variance (Lehmann and Romano 2005) was applied to compare the log2-expression levels between the two clinical classes 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.

- Analysis Results (MD5 checksum)

- Auxiliary Data (MD5 checksum)

- MAGE-TAB File (MD5 checksum)

References
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[4] Lehmann and Romano, Testing Statistical Hypotheses (3E ed.), New York: Springer. ISBN 0387988645 (2005)
[5] 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)
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