Skin Cutaneous Melanoma: Correlations between copy number and mRNAseq expression
(All_Primary 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 959.8, 2114, 2826, 3452.2, 4052, 4683.8, 5366.6, 6126, 6978.2, 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 46 43 43
Genes 23778 18112 18019

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
92105 INTS4 11q14.1 0.9318 0 0
4848 CNOT2 12q15 0.9223 0 0
91782 CHMP7 8p21.3 0.9096 0 0
55585 UBE2Q1 1q21.3 0.882 5.55111512312578e-15 1.06814701019486e-11
23039 XPO7 8p21.3 0.8779 1.08801856413265e-14 1.39571209332128e-11
55140 ELP3 8p21.1 0.8779 1.08801856413265e-14 1.39571209332128e-11
55100 WDR70 5p13.2 0.8695 3.90798504668055e-14 4.2970028295839e-11
84811 BUD13 11q23.3 0.8602 1.46105350040671e-13 1.40568146541644e-10
23087 TRIM35 8p21.2 0.858 1.96731519963578e-13 1.52104134251748e-10
3551 IKBKB 8p11.21 0.858 1.97619698383278e-13 1.52104134251748e-10
55508 SLC35E3 12q15 0.8551 2.87103674168065e-13 1.92618322026668e-10
84893 FBXO18 10p15.1 0.8535 3.5615954629975e-13 1.92618322026668e-10
2782 GNB1 1p36.33 0.8529 3.83915121915379e-13 1.92618322026668e-10
54904 WHSC1L1 8p11.23 0.8529 3.86357612569554e-13 1.92618322026668e-10
9846 GAB2 11q14.1 0.8524 4.10782519111308e-13 1.92618322026668e-10
93621 MRFAP1 4p16.1 0.8522 4.20552481728009e-13 1.92618322026668e-10
91445 RNF185 22q12.2 0.8521 4.2543746303636e-13 1.92618322026668e-10
9070 ASH2L 8p11.23 0.8515 4.60964599824365e-13 1.97108728281292e-10
1207 CLNS1A 11q14.1 0.851 4.90274487674469e-13 1.98607881979811e-10
55266 TMEM19 12q21.1 0.8483 6.89448498292222e-13 2.58064317663078e-10
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.