Analysis Overview
Rectum Adenocarcinoma (Primary solid tumor)
21 August 2015  |  analyses__2015_08_21
Maintainer Information
Citation Information
doi:10.7908/C1SX6CH2
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/MD Anderson Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School)
Cite as Broad Institute TCGA Genome Data Analysis Center (2015): Analysis Overview for Rectum Adenocarcinoma (Primary solid tumor cohort) - 21 August 2015. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C1SX6CH2
Overview
Introduction

This is an overview of Rectum Adenocarcinoma analysis pipelines from Firehose run "21 August 2015".

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

    • Analysis of mutagenesis by APOBEC cytidine deaminases (P-MACD).
      View Report | There are 122 tumor samples in this analysis. The Benjamini-Hochberg-corrected p-value for enrichment of the APOBEC mutation signature in 0 samples is <=0.05. Out of these, 0 have enrichment values >2, which implies that in such samples at least 50% of APOBEC signature mutations have been in fact made by APOBEC enzyme(s).

    • CHASM 1.0.5 (Cancer-Specific High-throughput Annotation of Somatic Mutations)
      View Report | There are 20311 mutations identified by MuTect and 1678 mutations with significant functional impact at BHFDR <= 0.25.

    • LowPass Copy number analysis (GISTIC2)
      View Report | There were 35 tumor samples used in this analysis: 18 significant arm-level results, 7 significant focal amplifications, and 3 significant focal deletions were found.

    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig 2CV v3.1)
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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 165 tumor samples used in this analysis: 20 significant arm-level results, 24 significant focal amplifications, and 35 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 12 different clustering approaches and 12 clinical features across 169 patients, 7 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 59 focal events and 12 clinical features across 165 patients, 5 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 12 clinical features across 165 patients, no significant finding detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between gene methylation status and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 20074 genes and 12 clinical features across 98 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 3 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 40 genes and 12 clinical features across 122 patients, no significant finding detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between miRseq expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 427 miRs and 12 clinical features across 143 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 7 clinical features related to at least one miRs.

    • Correlation between mRNA expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 17814 genes and 11 clinical features across 69 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 3 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between mRNAseq expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 18106 genes and 12 clinical features across 166 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 6 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between RPPA expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 208 genes and 12 clinical features across 131 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 165 samples using the 59 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 165 samples using the 59 copy number focal regions 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 Methylation: consensus NMF
      View Report | The 6787 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 98 samples and 6787 genes 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 mature expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | Median absolute deviation (MAD) was used to select 647 most variable miRs. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 51 samples and 647 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 647 most variable miRs. Consensus NMF clustering of 51 samples and 647 miRs identified 4 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 106 most variable miRs. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 143 samples and 106 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 143 samples and 150 miRs identified 5 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 mRNA expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | Median absolute deviation (MAD) was used to select 1500 most variable genes. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 69 samples and 1500 genes identified 8 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 10.

    • Clustering of mRNA expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 69 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 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 166 samples and 1500 genes identified 7 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 166 samples using the 1500 most variable genes was identified for k = 5 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 208 most variable proteins. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 131 samples and 208 proteins identified 6 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 131 samples using 208 proteins was identified for k = 5 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 8 and used the cophenetic correlation coefficient to determine the best solution.

  • Other Analyses

    • Aggregate Analysis Features
      View Report | 171 samples and 430 features are included in this feature table. The figures below show which genomic pair events are co-occurring and which are mutually-exclusive.

    • Identification of putative miR direct targets by sequencing data
      View Report | The CLR algorithm was applied on 624 miRs and 18106 mRNAs across 75 samples. After 2 filtering steps, the number of 3 miR:genes pairs were detected.

  • Pathway Analyses

    • Association of mutation, copy number alteration, and subtype markers with pathways
      View Report | There are 33 genes with significant mutation (Q value <= 0.1) and 444 genes with significant copy number alteration (Q value <= 0.25). The identified marker genes (Q value <= 0.01 or within top 2000) are 883 for subtype 1, 883 for subtype 2, 883 for subtype 3. Pathways significantly enriched with these genes (Q value <= 0.01) are identified :

    • GSEA Class2: Canonical Pathways enriched in each subtypes of mRNAseq_cNMF in READ-TP
      View Report | basic data info

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNA expression and copy number data
      View Report | There were 22 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNA expression data
      View Report | There were 30 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNASeq expression and copy number data
      View Report | There were 30 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNASeq expression data
      View Report | There were 31 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • Significant over-representation of pathway genesets for a given gene list
      View Report | For a given gene list, a hypergeometric test was tried to find significant overlapping canonical pathway gene sets. In terms of FDR adjusted p.values, top 5 significant overlapping gene sets are listed as below.

  • Other Correlation Analyses

    • Correlation between copy number variation genes (focal events) and molecular subtypes
      View Report | Testing the association between copy number variation 59 focal events and 12 molecular subtypes across 165 patients, 116 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 12 molecular subtypes across 165 patients, 61 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 40 genes and 12 molecular subtypes across 122 patients, 24 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 = 98. Number of gene expression samples = 166. Number of methylation samples = 98.

    • Correlations between copy number and mRNA expression
      View Report | The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are -0.07236, 0.0082, 0.07502, 0.1425, 0.2071, 0.27744, 0.346, 0.4246, 0.51846, respectively.

    • Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
      View Report | The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are 865.3, 1668, 2243, 2828, 3397.5, 3938, 4499, 5085, 5805.7, respectively.

Methods & Data
Input

  • Summary Report Date = Sun Nov 8 23:36:09 2015

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