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library(here)
library(minfi)
library(paletteer)
library(limma)
library(reshape2)
library(missMethyl)
library(ggplot2)
library(glue)
library(tibble)
library(dplyr)
library(curatedTCGAData)
library(MultiAssayExperiment)
library(TCGAutils)
library(DMRcate)
library(patchwork)
source(here("code/utility.R"))

Load data

We are using publicly available kidney clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) 450k data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We are using only the normal samples to look at false discovery rate (FDR) control by various methylation gene set testing methods.

First, download the data using the curatedTCGAData Bioconductor package and then extract the normal samples. The data is provided as β values with masked data points; data points were masked as “NA” if their detection p-value was greater than 0.05 or the probe was annotated as having a SNP within 10 base pairs or repeat within 15 base pairs or the interrogated CpG. We extract only the 160 normal samples.

kirc <- curatedTCGAData(diseaseCode = "KIRC", assays = "Methylation_methyl450", 
                        dry.run = FALSE)
kirc <- splitAssays(kirc, c("11")) # extract only the normal samples
exp <- experiments(kirc)[[1]]
meta <- colData(kirc)
betas <- as.matrix(assay(exp))
colnames(betas) <- substr(colnames(betas), 1, 12)
m <- match(colnames(betas), meta$patientID)
meta <- meta[m, ]
head(meta[, 1:5])

Quality control

Removed any probes with >1 NA value.

betasNoNA <- betas[rowSums(is.na(betas)) == 0, ]
mds <- plotMDS(betasNoNA, gene.selection = "common", plot = FALSE)
dat <- tibble(x = mds$x, y = mds$y, gender = meta$gender)

ggplot(dat, aes(x = x, y = y, colour = gender)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(x = "Principal Component 1", y = "Principal Component 2", 
       colour = "Sex")

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Remove any remaining SNP-affected probes and multi-mapping and sex-chromosome probes. This leaves 364,602 probes for downstream analysis.

betasFlt <- rmSNPandCH(betasNoNA, rmXY = TRUE, rmcrosshyb = TRUE)
snapshotDate(): 2020-10-27
see ?DMRcatedata and browseVignettes('DMRcatedata') for documentation
loading from cache
see ?DMRcatedata and browseVignettes('DMRcatedata') for documentation
loading from cache
see ?DMRcatedata and browseVignettes('DMRcatedata') for documentation
loading from cache
dim(betasFlt)
[1] 364602    160

We no longer observe a sex effect or other structure in the data.

mds <- plotMDS(betasFlt, gene.selection = "common", plot = FALSE)
dat <- tibble(x = mds$x, y = mds$y, gender = meta$gender)

pal <- paletteer::paletteer_d("wesanderson::Moonrise3", 2)
cols <- c("female" = pal[2], "male" = pal[1])
p <- ggplot(dat, aes(x = x, y = y, colour = gender)) +
  geom_point(size = 2) +
  labs(x = "Principal Component 1", y = "Principal Component 2", 
       colour = "Sex") +
    scale_color_manual(values = cols)
p

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Save figure for use in manuscript.

outDir <- here::here("output/figures")
if (!dir.exists(outDir)) dir.create(outDir)

fig <- here("output/figures/Fig-3C.rds")
saveRDS(p, fig, compress = FALSE)

Colour MDS plot using different variables to explore any further structure in the data.

dat$age <- meta$years_to_birth
dat$race <- sub(" or", "\nor", meta$race)
dat$ethnicity <- sub(" or", "\nor", meta$ethnicity)

a <- ggplot(dat, aes(x = x, y = y, colour = age)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(x = "Principal Component 1", y = "Principal Component 2", 
       colour = "Age") +
  viridis::scale_color_viridis(direction = -1)

b <- ggplot(dat, aes(x = x, y = y, colour = race)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(x = "Principal Component 1", y = "Principal Component 2", 
       colour = "Race") +
  theme(legend.text = element_text(size = 7))

c <- ggplot(dat, aes(x = x, y = y, colour = ethnicity)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(x = "Principal Component 1", y = "Principal Component 2", 
       colour = "Ethnicity")  +
  theme(legend.text = element_text(size = 7))

(b + c) / a

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dat <- as_tibble(melt(betasFlt))
colnames(dat) <- c("cpg", "ID", "beta")

p <- ggplot(dat, aes(x = beta)) + 
  geom_line(aes(color = ID), stat="density", size=0.5, alpha=0.5,
            show.legend = FALSE)

p + labs(x = "Beta value", y = "Density")

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Save the filtered TCGA KIRC data for use in subsequent FDR analysis.

outFile <- here("data/datasets/TCGA.KIRC.rds")

if(!file.exists(outFile)){
    saveRDS(betasFlt, file = outFile)
}

FDR analysis: KIRC

We randomly select 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 samples per "group" from the TCGA KIRC normal samples and then perform differential methylation analysis between the two "groups". We do this 100 times for each "group" size. There should be no significant differential methylation between the groups as the data contains no signal. Consequently, we expect about 5% false gene set discoveries across the 100 simulations from methods that are "holding their size".

We compare GOmeth (with top 1000 and 5000 ranked CpGs from the DM analysis selected as "significant"), methylglm (mGLM), methylRRA-ORA (mRRA (ORA)), methylRRA-GSEA (mRRA (GSEA)) from the MethylGSA package and ebGSEA. The BROAD MSigDB gene sets provided with ChAMP package were used for this analysis.

The code used to produce the simulation results can be found in the code/fdr-analysis directory. It consists of three scripts: genRunFDRAnalysisJob.R, runFDRAnalysis.R and processFDRAnalysis.R. The genRunFDRAnalysisJob.R script creates and submits Slurm job scripts that run the runFDRAnalysis.R script, in parallel, on a HPC. Each job executes one of the 100 simulations, for a "group" size. The results of each job are saved as an RDS file named FDR.{sampleNo}.{simNo}.rds in the output/FDR-analysis directory. Once all simulation jobs are complete, the processFDRAnalysis.R must be executed to collate the results into a single object, which is then saved as FDR-analysis.rds in the output/FDR-analysis directory. The intermediate RDS files are moved into output/FDR-analysis/.bin, which can then be deleted, if no longer required. The subsequent section requires FDR-analysis.rds to be present in the output/FDR-analysis directory for downstream analysis and plotting.

Load the results of the FDR simulations.

broad <- readRDS(here("output/FDR-analysis/BROAD-sets.rds"))
noGenes <- data.frame(noGenes = sapply(broad$entrez, length))

inFile <- here("output/FDR-analysis/FDR.KIRC.analysis.rds")
if(file.exists(inFile)) dat <- as_tibble(readRDS(inFile))

The plots below shows that mRRA (ORA) does not control the FDR very well as the median proportion of p-value 0.05 for the 100 simulations is greater than 0.5. mRRA (GSEA) does better, although its median FDR is still relatively high at around 0.25. mGLM has good FDR control with median FDR at around 0.05. ebayGSEA is only slightly anti-conservative using both the Wilcox test (WT) and Known Population Median test (KPMT) with a median FDR at around 0.06-0.08. GOmeth is very consistent although somewhat conservative with a median FDR at around 0.02-0.03.

dat %>% 
    #left_join(rownames_to_column(noGenes), by = c("ID" = "rowname")) %>%
    #filter(noGenes >= 1) %>%
    mutate(method = unname(dict[method])) %>%
    group_by(simNo, sampleNo, method) %>% 
    summarise(psig = sum(pvalue < 0.05)/length(pvalue)) %>%
    mutate(sampleOrd = as.integer(sampleNo)) -> sigDat
`summarise()` has grouped output by 'simNo', 'sampleNo'. You can override using the `.groups` argument.
p <- ggplot(sigDat, aes(x = reorder(sampleNo, sampleOrd), y = psig, 
                        fill = method)) +
    geom_violin(scale = "width", width = 0.8, size = 0.3) + 
    stat_summary(geom = "point", size = 0.5, color = "white",
                 position = position_dodge(0.8),
                 show.legend = FALSE, fun = median) +
    geom_hline(yintercept=0.05, linetype="dashed", color = "red") +
    labs(y="Prop. gene sets with p-value < 0.05", x="No. samples per group",
         fill="Method") +
    scale_fill_manual(values = methodCols) +
    facet_grid(cols = vars(sampleOrd), scales = "free_x") + 
    theme(strip.background = element_blank(), 
          strip.text = element_blank())
p

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Save figure for use in manuscript.

fig <- here("output/figures/Fig-3D.rds")
saveRDS(p, fig, compress = FALSE)

sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8

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