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title: "QC and downstream analysis for differential expression RNA-seq"
shorttitle: "Toolkit for differential expression analysis"
author: "Lorena Pantano"
date: "`r BiocStyle::doc_date()`"
package: "`r BiocStyle::pkg_ver('DEGreport')`"
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DEGreport package version: `r packageVersion("DEGreport")`
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```{r setup, echo=FALSE, results="hide"}
library(BiocStyle)
knitr::opts_chunk$set(tidy=FALSE,
dev="png",
message=FALSE, error=FALSE,
warning=TRUE)
```
[Lorena Pantano](lorena.pantano@gmail.com)
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, US
```{r load-data}
library(DEGreport)
data(humanGender)
```
## General QC figures from DE analysis
We are going to do a differential expression analysis with edgeR/DESeq2.
We have an object that is coming from the edgeR package.
It contains a gene count matrix
for 85 TSI HapMap individuals, and the gender information. With that, we are
going to apply the `glmFit` function or `r Biocpkg("DESeq2")` to get genes differentially expressed
between males and females.
```{r experiment}
library(DESeq2)
idx <- c(1:10, 75:85)
dds <- DESeqDataSetFromMatrix(assays(humanGender)[[1]][1:1000, idx],
colData(humanGender)[idx,], design=~group)
dds <- DESeq(dds)
res <- results(dds)
```
We need to extract the experiment design data.frame where the condition is
Male or Female.
```{r count-design}
counts <- counts(dds, normalized = TRUE)
design <- as.data.frame(colData(dds))
```
### Size factor QC
A main assumption in library size factor calculation of edgeR and DESeq2 (and others)
is that the majority of genes remain unchanged. Plotting the distribution
of gene ratios between each gene and the average gene can show how true this is.
Not super useful for many samples because the plot becomes crowed.
```{r check-factor}
degCheckFactors(counts[, 1:6])
```
### Mean-Variance QC plots
p-value distribution gives an idea on how well you model is capturing the input data
and as well whether it could be some problem for some set of genes. In general,
you expect to have a flat distribution with peaks at 0 and 1. In this case, we add
the mean count information to check if any set of genes are enriched in any
specific p-value range.
Variation (dispersion) and average expression relationship shouldn't be a factor among
the differentially expressed genes. When plotting average mean and standard deviation,
significant genes should be randomly distributed.
In this case, it would be good to look at the ones that are totally outside the expected
correlation.
You can put this tree plots together using `degQC`.
```{r qc}
degQC(counts, design[["group"]], pvalue = res[["pvalue"]])
```
### Covariates effect on count data
Another important analysis to do if you have covariates is to calculate
the correlation between PCs from PCA analysis to different variables you may
think are affecting the gene expression. This is a toy example of how the
function works with raw data, where clearly library size correlates with
some of the PCs.
```{r cov}
resCov <- degCovariates(log2(counts(dds)+0.5),
colData(dds))
```
### Covariates correlation with metrics
Also, the correlation among covariates and metrics from the analysis can
be tested. This is useful when the study has multiple variables, like in
clinical trials. The following code will return a correlation table, and
plot the correlation heatmap for all the covariates and metrics in a table.
```{r corcov}
cor <- degCorCov(colData(dds))
names(cor)
```
### QC report
A quick HTML report can be created with `createReport` to show whether
a DE analysis is biased to a particular set of genes. It contains the output
of `degQC, `degVB and `degMB`.
Note: Nozzle.R1 is not longer available since 3.16. You need to install
the package manually before using this function.
```{r report, eval=FALSE}
createReport(colData(dds)[["group"]], counts(dds, normalized = TRUE),
row.names(res)[1:20], res[["pvalue"]], path = "~/Downloads")
```
## Report from DESeq2 analysis
Here, we show some useful plots for differentially expressed genes.
### Contrasts
`DEGSet` is a class to store the DE results like the one from
`results` function. `r Biocpkg("DESeq2")` offers multiple way to ask for
contrasts/coefficients. With `degComps` is easy to get multiple
results in a single object:
```{r degComps}
degs <- degComps(dds, combs = "group",
contrast = list("group_Male_vs_Female",
c("group", "Female", "Male")))
names(degs)
```
`degs` contains 3 elements, one for each contrast/coefficient asked for.
It contains the results output in the element `raw` and the output of
`lfcShrink` in the element `shrunken`.
To obtain the results from one of them, use the method `dge`:
```{r deg}
deg(degs[[1]])
```
By default it would output the `shrunken` table always, as defined by
`degDefault`, that contains the default table to get.
To get the original results table, use the parameter as this:
```{r raw}
deg(degs[[1]], "raw", "tibble")
```
Note that the format of the output can be changed to tibble, or data.frame with
a third parameter `tidy`.
The table will be always sorted by padj.
And easy way to get significant genes is:
```{r significants}
significants(degs[[1]], fc = 0, fdr = 0.05)
```
This function can be used as well for a list of comparisons:
```{r significants-list}
significants(degs, fc = 0, fdr = 0.05)
```
And it can returns the full table for a list:
```{r significants-list-full}
significants(degs, fc = 0, fdr = 0.05, full = TRUE)
```
Since log2FoldChange are shrunken, the method for DEGSet class now can
plot these changes as follow:
```{r plotMA}
degMA(degs[[1]], diff = 2, limit = 3)
```
The blue arrows indicate how foldchange is affected by this new feature.
As well, it can plot the original MA plot:
```{r plotMA-raw}
degMA(degs[[1]], diff = 2, limit = 3, raw = TRUE)
```
or the correlation between the original log2FoldChange and the new ones:
```{r plotMA-cor}
degMA(degs[[1]], limit = 3, correlation = TRUE)
```
### Volcano plots
Volcano plot using the output of `r Biocpkg("DESeq2")`. It mainly needs data.frame with
two columns (logFC and pVal). Specific genes can be plot using the option
`plot\_text` (subset of the previous data.frame with a 3rd column to be used
to plot the gene name).
```{r deseq2-volcano}
res[["id"]] <- row.names(res)
show <- as.data.frame(res[1:10, c("log2FoldChange", "padj", "id")])
degVolcano(res[,c("log2FoldChange", "padj")], plot_text = show)
```
Note that the function is compatible with DEGset. Using
`degVolcano(degs[[1]])` is valid.
### Gene plots
Plot top genes coloring by group. Very useful for experiments with nested
groups. `xs` can be `time` or `WT`/`KO`, and `group` can be `treated`/`untreated`.
Another classification can be added, like `batch` that will plot points
with different shapes.
```{r deseq2-gene-plots}
degPlot(dds = dds, res = res, n = 6, xs = "group")
```
Another option for plotting genes in a wide format:
```{r deseq2-gene-plot-wide}
degPlotWide(dds, rownames(dds)[1:5], group="group")
```
### Markers plots
Markers can be used to show whether different conditions are enriched in
different markers. For instance, in this example, Females and Males show
different total expression for chromosome X/Y markers
```{r markers}
data(geneInfo)
degSignature(humanGender, geneInfo, group = "group")
```
### Full report
If you have a DESeq2 object, you can use degResults to create a full report
with markdown code inserted,
including figures and table with top de-regulated genes, GO enrichment
analysis and heatmaps and PCA plots. If you set \Rcode{path\_results},
different files will be saved there.
```{r deseq2}
resreport <- degResults(dds = dds, name = "test", org = NULL,
do_go = FALSE, group = "group", xs = "group",
path_results = NULL)
```
### Interactive shiny-app
Browsing gene expression can help to validate results or select some gene
for downstream analysis. Run the following lines if you want to visualize
your expression values by condition:
```{r shiny, eval=FALSE}
degObj(counts, design, "degObj.rda")
library(shiny)
shiny::runGitHub("lpantano/shiny", subdir="expression")
```
## Detect patterns of expression
In this section, we show how to detect pattern of expression. Mainly useful when
data is a time course experiment. `degPatterns` needs a expression
matrix, the design experiment and the column used to group samples.
```{r pattern}
ma = assay(rlog(dds))[row.names(res)[1:100],]
res <- degPatterns(ma, design, time = "group")
```
## Useful functions
This section shows some useful functions during DEG analysis.
### Filter genes by group
`degFilter` helps to filter genes with a minimum read count by group.
```{r filter, results="asis"}
cat("gene in original count matrix: 1000")
filter_count <- degFilter(counts(dds),
design, "group",
min=1, minreads = 50)
cat("gene in final count matrix", nrow(filter_count))
```
### Generate colors for metadata variables
This functions allows you to create colors for metadata columns
to be used as annotation for columns in a heatmap figure.
```{r degColors}
library(ComplexHeatmap)
th <- HeatmapAnnotation(df = colData(dds),
col = degColors(colData(dds), TRUE))
Heatmap(log2(counts(dds) + 0.5)[1:10,],
top_annotation = th)
library(pheatmap)
pheatmap(log2(counts(dds) + 0.5)[1:10,],
annotation_col = as.data.frame(colData(dds))[,1:4],
annotation_colors = degColors(colData(dds)[1:4],
con_values = c("white",
"red")
)
)
```
# Session info
```{r sessionInfo}
sessionInfo()
```