Analysis Overview
Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma
14 July 2016  |  awg_lihc__2016_07_14
Maintainer Information
Citation Information
Maintained by TCGA GDAC Team (Broad Institute/MD Anderson Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School)
Cite as Broad Institute TCGA Genome Data Analysis Center (2016): Analysis Overview for Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma - 14 July 2016. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. doi:10.7908/C1NZ874B
Overview
Introduction

This is an overview of Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma analysis pipelines from Firehose run "14 July 2016".

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 373 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 29874 mutations identified by MuTect and 1819 mutations with significant functional impact at BHFDR <= 0.25.

    • Mutation Analysis (MutSig 2CV v3.1)
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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 372 tumor samples used in this analysis: 30 significant arm-level results, 26 significant focal amplifications, and 33 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 12 clinical features across 377 patients, 40 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 370 patients, 39 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 82 arm-level events and 12 clinical features across 370 patients, 33 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between gene methylation status and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 16488 genes and 12 clinical features across 377 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 99 genes and 12 clinical features across 373 patients, 12 significant findings detected with Q value < 0.25.

    • Correlation between miRseq expression and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 540 miRs and 12 clinical features across 373 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 17705 genes and 12 clinical features across 371 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 7 clinical features related to at least one genes.

    • Correlation between mutation rate and clinical features
      View Report | Testing the association between 2 variables and 13 clinical features across 372 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 219 genes and 12 clinical features across 184 samples, statistically thresholded by P value < 0.05 and Q value < 0.3, 8 clinical features related to at least one genes.

  • Clustering Analyses

    • Clustering of copy number data by focal peak region with absolute value: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 372 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 copy number data by peak region with threshold value: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 372 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 most robust consensus NMF clustering of 429 samples using the 10015 most variable genes was identified for k = 4 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 10 and uused the cophenetic correlation coefficient and the average silhouette width calculation to determine 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 398 samples and 647 miRs identified 6 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 10.

    • Clustering of miRseq mature expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 398 samples using the 647 most variable miRs was identified for k = 7 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 10 and uused the cophenetic correlation coefficient and the average silhouette width calculation to determine the robust clusters.

    • Clustering of miRseq precursor expression: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | Median absolute deviation (MAD) was used to select 135 most variable miRs. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 424 samples and 135 miRs identified 6 subtypes with the stability of the clustering increasing for k = 2 to k = 10.

    • Clustering of miRseq precursor expression: consensus NMF
      View Report | The most robust consensus NMF clustering of 424 samples using the 150 most variable miRs was identified for k = 7 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 10 and uused the cophenetic correlation coefficient and the average silhouette width calculation to determine 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 423 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 423 samples using the 1500 most variable genes was identified for k = 5 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 10 and uused the cophenetic correlation coefficient and the average silhouette width calculation to determine the robust clusters.

    • Clustering of RPPA data: consensus hierarchical
      View Report | Median absolute deviation (MAD) was used to select 219 most variable proteins. Consensus ward linkage hierarchical clustering of 184 samples and 219 proteins identified 5 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 184 samples using the 219 most variable proteins was identified for k = 6 clusters. We computed the clustering for k = 2 to k = 10 and uused the cophenetic correlation coefficient and the average silhouette width calculation to determine the robust clusters.

  • Other Analyses

    • Identification of putative miR direct targets by sequencing data
      View Report | The CLR algorithm was applied on 787 miRs and 17705 mRNAs across 419 samples. After 2 filtering steps, the number of 99 miR:genes pairs were detected.

  • Pathway Analyses

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

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNASeq expression and copy number data
      View Report | There were 43 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • PARADIGM pathway analysis of mRNASeq expression data
      View Report | There were 50 significant pathways identified in this analysis.

    • Significant over-representation of pathway gene sets for a given gene list
      View Report | For a given gene list, a hypergeometric test was tried to find significant overlapping canonical pathways using 1320 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 10 molecular subtypes across 370 patients, 365 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 82 arm-level events and 10 molecular subtypes across 370 patients, 319 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 99 genes and 10 molecular subtypes across 373 patients, 36 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 = 371. Number of gene expression samples = 423. Number of methylation samples = 429.

    • Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
      View Report | The correlation coefficients in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 percentiles are 868.5, 1562, 2083, 2627, 3218, 3838, 4467, 5107, 5830, respectively.

Methods & Data
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