Skin Cutaneous Melanoma: Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
(NF1_Any_Mutants cohort)
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/MD Anderson Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School)
Overview
Introduction

A TCGA sample is profiled to detect the copy number variations and expressions of genes. This pipeline attempts to correlate copy number and Rnaseq data of genes across samples to determine if the copy number variations also result in differential expressions. This report contains the calculated correlation coefficients based on measurements of genomic copy number (log2) values and RNAseq expression of the corresponding feature across patients. High positive/low negative correlation coefficients indicate that genomic alterations result in differences in the expressions of mRNAseq the genomic regions transcribe.

Summary

The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are 872.6, 2056.2, 2991, 3651, 4307, 4954.6, 5630.2, 6372, 7225.4, respectively.

Results
Correlation results

Number of genes and samples used for the calculation are shown in Table 1. Figure 1 shows the distribution of calculated correlation coefficients and quantile-quantile plot of the calculated correlation coefficients against a normal distribution. Table 2 shows the top 20 features ordered by the value of correlation coefficients.

Table 1.  Counts of mRNAseq and number of samples in copy number and expression data sets and common to both

Category Copy number Expression Common
Sample 31 31 31
Genes 23778 17990 17897

Figure 1.  Summary figures. Left: histogram showing the distribution of the calculated correlations across samples for all Genes. Right: QQ plot of the calculated correlations across samples. The QQ plot is used to plot the quantiles of the calculated correlation coefficients against that derived from a normal distribution. Points deviating from the blue line indicate deviation from normality.

Table 2.  Get Full Table Top 20 features (defined by the feature column) ranked by correlation coefficients

Locus ID Gene Symbol Cytoband cor p-value q-value
554226 ANKRD30BL 2q21.2 0.9268 4.08278730312794e-05 0.000760663651445885
5713 PSMD7 16q23.1 0.9009 4.97157870427145e-12 4.79638493235104e-08
10352 WARS2 1p12 0.8815 5.82249803926516e-11 2.80865933392352e-07
283847 CCDC79 16q22.1 0.8799 0.000354350465081366 0.0031653393990347
55122 AKIRIN2 6q15 0.8767 1.00231156707764e-10 3.22330349091587e-07
9477 MED20 6p21.1 0.8698 2.11693329532636e-10 4.16537861449783e-07
9887 SMG7 1q25.3 0.8696 2.15876205800214e-10 4.16537861449783e-07
57805 KIAA1967 8p21.3 0.8666 2.93401969386764e-10 4.69906786424106e-07
91782 CHMP7 8p21.3 0.8652 3.40949490862386e-10 4.69906786424106e-07
51271 UBAP1 9p13.3 0.8595 5.9352167625093e-10 7.15758161121896e-07
54834 GDAP2 1p12 0.8543 9.73123359671035e-10 1.04314600547638e-06
8567 MADD 11p11.2 0.8519 1.21694432309027e-09 1.17406034621666e-06
9798 IST1 16q22.2 0.8486 1.64316116268992e-09 1.44114336730229e-06
92105 INTS4 11q14.1 0.8469 1.89664284278024e-09 1.52483910616203e-06
23463 ICMT 1p36.31 0.8449 2.2729245152675e-09 1.62596714738262e-06
221477 C6orf89 6p21.2 0.8444 2.35950059490619e-09 1.62596714738262e-06
27257 LSM1 8p11.23 0.8409 3.18817261479865e-09 1.95806389926821e-06
7419 VDAC3 8p11.21 0.8407 3.2473352895579e-09 1.95806389926821e-06
84811 BUD13 11q23.3 0.8393 3.66296992737603e-09 2.07875900101872e-06
80185 TTI2 8p12 0.8372 4.35066382920013e-09 2.26910865880632e-06
Methods & Data
Input

Gene level (TCGA Level III) mRNAseq expression data and copy number data of corresponding gene derived by GISTIC pipelinePearson correlation coefficients were calculated for each pair of genes shared by the two data sets across all the samples that were common.

Correlation across sample

Pairwise correlations between the log2 copy numbers and expressions of each gene across samples were calculated using Pearson correlation.

Download Results

This is an experimental feature. The full results of the analysis summarized in this report can be downloaded from the TCGA Data Coordination Center.