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ArticleCancer informatics2014

TEGS-CN: A Statistical Method for Pathway Analysis of Genome-wide Copy Number Profile.

Yen-Tsung Huang, Thomas Hsu, David C Christiani

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yen-Tsung HuangDepartment of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Thomas HsuProgram in Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI.
David C ChristianiDepartments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. ; Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Brown University · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Translational studies of Hsp90 inhibitors in NSCLCP50CA090578 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI YEAP, BEOW Y · 2008 to 2012
$11.4M
Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Lung Cancer SurvivalR01CA092824 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI CHRISTIANI, DAVID C · 2002 to 2013
$5.9M
SPORE in Lung CancerP20CA090578 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI JOHNSON, BRUCE E. · 2003 to 2007
$5.1M
GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TO LUNG CANCERR01CA074386 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI CHRISTIANI, DAVID C · 1997 to 2008
$4.8M
NCI NIH HHS P20 CA090578NCI NIH HHS P50 CA090578NCI NIH HHS R01 CA074386NCI NIH HHS R01 CA092824
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effects of copy number alterations make up a significant part of the tumor genome profile, but pathway analyses of these alterations are still not well established. We proposed a novel method to analyze multiple copy numbers of genes within a pathway, termed Test for the Effect of a Gene Set with Copy Number data (TEGS-CN). TEGS-CN was adapted from TEGS, a method that we previously developed for gene expression data using a variance component score test. With additional development, we extend the method to analyze DNA copy number data, accounting for different sizes and thus various numbers of copy number probes in genes. The test statistic follows a mixture of X (2) distributions that can be obtained using permutation with scaled X (2) approximation. We conducted simulation studies to evaluate the size and the power of TEGS-CN and to compare its performance with TEGS. We analyzed a genome-wide copy number data from 264 patients of non-small-cell lung cancer. With the Molecular Signatures Database (MSigDB) pathway database, the genome-wide copy number data can be classified into 1814 biological pathways or gene sets. We investigated associations of the copy number profile of the 1814 gene sets with pack-years of cigarette smoking. Our analysis revealed five pathways with significant P values after Bonferroni adjustment (<2.8 × 10(-5)), including the PTEN pathway (7.8 × 10(-7)), the gene set up-regulated under heat shock (3.6 × 10(-6)), the gene sets involved in the immune profile for rejection of kidney transplantation (9.2 × 10(-6)) and for transcriptional control of leukocytes (2.2 × 10(-5)), and the ganglioside biosynthesis pathway (2.7 × 10(-5)). In conclusion, we present a new method for pathway analyses of copy number data, and causal mechanisms of the five pathways require further study.

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cancer genomicscopy numbersgene set analysespathway analysesvariance component test

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PMID25452685
PMCPMC4218657
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