Analysis Overview
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Primary solid tumor)
15 July 2014  |  analyses__2014_07_15
Maintainer Information
Citation Information
doi:10.7908/C1QN65H6
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/MD Anderson Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School)
Cite as Broad Institute TCGA Genome Data Analysis Center (2014): Analysis Overview for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Primary solid tumor cohort) - 15 July 2014. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C1QN65H6
Overview
Introduction

This is an overview of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma analysis pipelines from Firehose run "15 July 2014".

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

  • Sequence and Copy Number Analyses

    • LowPass Copy number analysis (GISTIC2)
      View Report | There were 108 tumor samples used in this analysis: 23 significant arm-level results, 10 significant focal amplifications, and 1 significant focal deletions were found.

    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig 2CV v3.1)
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    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig v1.5)
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    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig v2.0)
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    • Mutation Analysis (MutSigCV v0.9)
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    • Mutation Assessor
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    • SNP6 Copy number analysis (GISTIC2)
      View Report | There were 511 tumor samples used in this analysis: 28 significant arm-level results, 29 significant focal amplifications, and 44 significant focal deletions were found.

  • Correlations to Clinical Parameters

    • Correlation between aggregated molecular cancer subtypes and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between subtypes identified by 10 different clustering approaches and 13 clinical features across 423 patients, 11 significant findings detected with P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between copy number variation genes (focal events) and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between copy number variation 73 focal events and 13 clinical features across 417 patients, 3 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between copy number variations of arm-level result and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between copy number variation 80 arm-level events and 13 clinical features across 417 patients, 2 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between gene methylation status and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 20185 genes and 13 clinical features across 423 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 9 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between gene mutation status and selected clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between mutation status of 27 genes and 11 clinical features across 306 patients, 2 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between miRseq expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 548 miRs and 13 clinical features across 421 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 8 clinical features related to at least one miRs.

    • Correlation between mRNAseq expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 18370 genes and 13 clinical features across 408 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 11 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between mutation rate and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 2 variables and 12 clinical features across 306 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 5 clinical features related to at least one variables.

    • Correlation between RPPA expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 160 genes and 11 clinical features across 212 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 7 clinical features related to at least one genes.

  • Clustering Analyses

    • Clustering of copy number data by focal peak region with log2 ratio: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 511 samples using the 73 copy number focal regions was identified for k = 4 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

    • Clustering of copy number data by peak region with threshold value: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 511 samples using the 73 copy number focal regions was identified for k = 4 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

    • Clustering of Methylation: consensus NMF
      View Report | The 4485 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 528 samples and 4485 genes identified 7 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.

    • Clustering of miRseq mature expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | Median absolute deviation (MAD) was used to select 261 most variable miRs. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 475 samples and 261 miRs identified 5 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 10.

    • Clustering of miRseq mature expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | We filtered the data to 261 most variable miRs. Consensus NMF clustering of 475 samples and 261 miRs 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.

    • Clustering of miRseq precursor expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | Median absolute deviation (MAD) was used to select 137 most variable miRs. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 512 samples and 137 miRs identified 3 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 10.

    • Clustering of miRseq precursor expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | We filtered the data to 150 most variable miRs. Consensus NMF clustering of 512 samples and 150 miRs 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.

    • Clustering of mRNAseq gene expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | Median absolute deviation (MAD) was used to select 1500 most variable genes. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 497 samples and 1500 genes identified 4 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 10.

    • Clustering of mRNAseq gene expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 497 samples using the 1500 most variable genes was identified for k = 3 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

    • Clustering of RPPA data: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | Median absolute deviation (MAD) was used to select 160 most variable proteins. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 212 samples and 160 proteins identified 3 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 10.

    • Clustering of RPPA data: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 212 samples using 160 proteins was identified for k = 4 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

  • Pathway Analyses

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNASeq expression and copy number data
      View Report | There were 40 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNASeq expression data
      View Report | There were 42 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

  • Other Correlation Analyses

    • Correlation between copy number variation genes (focal events) and molecular subtypes
      View Report | Testing the association between copy number variation 73 focal events and 10 molecular subtypes across 511 patients, 197 significant findings detected with P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between copy number variations of arm-level result and molecular subtypes
      View Report | Testing the association between copy number variation 80 arm-level events and 10 molecular subtypes across 511 patients, 140 significant findings detected with P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between gene mutation status and molecular subtypes
      View Report | Testing the association between mutation status of 27 genes and 10 molecular subtypes across 306 patients, 17 significant findings detected with P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between mRNA expression and DNA methylation
      View Report | The top 25 correlated methylation probes per gene are displayed. Total number of matched samples = 497. Number of gene expression samples = 497. Number of methylation samples = 528.

    • Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
      View Report | The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are 1017, 1585, 2107, 2656, 3250, 3864, 4519, 5199, 5984, respectively.

Methods & Data
Input

  • Summary Report Date = Tue Sep 16 17:52:58 2014

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