Correlation between mRNA expression and DNA methylation
Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Primary solid tumor)
28 January 2016  |  analyses__2016_01_28
Maintainer Information
Citation Information
Maintained by Richard Park (Boston University/Harvard Medical School)
Cite as Broad Institute TCGA Genome Data Analysis Center (2016): Correlation between mRNA expression and DNA methylation. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C1TB16B9
Overview
Introduction

The role of general epigenetic mechanisms in carcinogenesis and tumor aggressiveness is well documented: CpG island hyper-methylation silences tumor suppressor genes, whereas hypo-methylation promotes the transcriptional activation of oncogenes and induces chromosomal instability. This pipeline calculates and identifies correlations between DNA methylation and gene expression profiles using the available array technologies.

Summary

The top 25 correlated methylation probes per gene are displayed. Total number of matched samples = 370. Number of gene expression samples = 501. Number of methylation samples = 370.

Results
Correlation Histogram

Figure 1.  Histogram of methylation correlation values. n is the number of matched samples between Level 3 CpG site methylation and Level 3 gene expression arrays. Number of Matched Samples = 370

Qvalue Summary Plots

Figure 2.  Plot 1. The estimated pi_0 versus the tuning parameter lambda. Plot 2. The q-values versus the p-values. Plot 3. The number of significant tests versus each q-value cutoff. Plot 4. The number of expected false positives versus the number of significant tests.The first is a plot of the estimate of pi_0 versus its tuning parameter lambda. In most cases, as lambda gets larger, the bias of the estimate decreases, yet the variance increases. Comparing your estimate of pi_0 to this plot allows one to guage its quality. The remaining three plots show how many tests are significant, as well as how many false positives to expect for each q-value cut-off.

Negative Correlation between Methylation and Gene Expression

Table 1.  Get Full Table Top 25 most negatively correlated methylation probes. Correlation Coefficient: See Methods & Data below. Pval and Qval: P- and Q-values of the correlation coefficient. Expression Mean: mean detection level of gene expression probes. Methylation Mean: mean detection level of CpG methylation probes.

Meth_Probe Gene Chrom Position Corr_Coeff Pval Qval Expr_Mean Meth_Mean
cg06797068 DDX43 6 74104600 -0.88 2.7e-113 1e-113 3.3 0.72
cg16738971 ALDH7A1 5 125931166 -0.87 0 0 8.6 0.29
cg00215587 MKRN3 15 23810843 -0.86 0 0 5.1 0.7
cg12889195 PAX8 2 113992843 -0.86 0 0 5.9 0.66
cg14717314 CLEC2L 7 139227111 -0.84 0 0 4.2 0.75
cg02731193 GCLC 6 53407186 -0.84 0 0 12 0.66
cg05991820 ECHDC3 10 11785161 -0.84 0 0 6.8 0.55
cg16363586 BST2 19 17516329 -0.83 0 0 10 0.52
cg22958090 KRT7 12 52627438 -0.82 1.8e-91 6.8e-92 9.7 0.67
cg00773370 SCNN1A 12 6483772 -0.82 0 0 11 0.77
cg21493505 ZNF542 19 56879418 -0.81 0 0 6.7 0.43
cg01917209 MST1R 3 49938721 -0.81 0 0 7.8 0.77
cg26155983 GPX2 14 65410145 -0.81 0 0 11 0.58
cg20895028 CDH26 20 58533443 -0.81 0 0 6.7 0.66
cg23484599 PAX6 11 31831137 -0.8 0 0 6.2 0.63
cg05508084 ZNF667 19 56988398 -0.8 1.2e-83 4.8e-84 4.3 0.32
cg00032205 TSPYL5 8 98290372 -0.8 0 0 9.1 0.32
cg27460547 ZNF597 16 3493681 -0.8 0 0 4.6 0.49
cg02423817 PTPRCAP 11 67203661 -0.8 0 0 7.6 0.68
cg04909257 PGD 1 10462498 -0.8 0 0 13 0.75
cg19409149 UGT1A9 2 234608369 -0.79 0 0 7.1 0.74
cg13702536 GPR81 12 123215553 -0.79 9.7e-77 3.8e-77 3 0.65
cg16996266 ARTN 1 44400868 -0.79 0 0 7.8 0.62
cg11613003 FZD7 2 202901288 -0.79 0 0 10 0.47
cg02473540 ZNF135 19 58570454 -0.79 0 0 5.4 0.46
cg13620881 SYCP2L 6 10888129 -0.78 5.8e-72 2.3e-72 3.3 0.75
Methods & Data
Input

Methylation Array Platforms: Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation27, Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450, Illumina DNA Methylation OMA002, Illumina DNA Methylation OMA003

  • methylation file = /xchip/cga/gdac-prod/tcga-gdac/jobResults/GDAC_MethylationPreprocess/LUSC-TP/22318499/LUSC-TP.meth.by_min_expr_corr.data.txt

Gene Expression Platforms: Agilent 244K Gene Expression G4502A-07-1, Agilent 244K Gene Expression G4502A-07-2, Agilent 244K Gene Expression G4502A-07-3, Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array, Affymetrix HT Human Genome U133 Array

  • gene expression file = /xchip/cga/gdac-prod/tcga-gdac/jobResults/mRNAseq_preprocessor/LUSC-TP/22315346/LUSC-TP.uncv2.mRNAseq_RSEM_normalized_log2.txt

Correlation Coefficient

Level 3 methylation and gene expression arrays were paired on the basis of Entrez Gene ID concordance. The association between CpG site methylation and the level of expression of the corresponding genes was determined by calculating a correlation measure between the two platforms.

  • correlation measure = Spearman

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.