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0.1 Instalation

if (!require("BiocManager")) {
    install.packages("BiocManager")
}
BiocManager::install("glmSparseNet")

1 Required Packages

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(survival)
library(futile.logger)
library(curatedTCGAData)
library(MultiAssayExperiment)
library(TCGAutils)
#
library(glmSparseNet)
#
# Some general options for futile.logger the debugging package
flog.layout(layout.format("[~l] ~m"))
options(
    "glmSparseNet.show_message" = FALSE,
    "glmSparseNet.base_dir" = withr::local_tempdir()
)
# Setting ggplot2 default theme as minimal
theme_set(ggplot2::theme_minimal())

2 Load data

The data is loaded from an online curated dataset downloaded from TCGA using curatedTCGAData bioconductor package and processed.

To accelerate the process we use a very reduced dataset down to 107 variables only (genes), which is stored as a data object in this package. However, the procedure to obtain the data manually is described in the following chunk.

brca <- curatedTCGAData(
    diseaseCode = "BRCA", assays = "RNASeq2GeneNorm",
    version = "1.1.38", dry.run = FALSE
)
brca <- TCGAutils::TCGAsplitAssays(brca, c("01", "11"))
xdataRaw <- t(cbind(assay(brca[[1]]), assay(brca[[2]])))

# Get matches between survival and assay data
classV <- TCGAbiospec(rownames(xdataRaw))$sample_definition |> factor()
names(classV) <- rownames(xdataRaw)

# keep features with standard deviation > 0
xdataRaw <- xdataRaw[, apply(xdataRaw, 2, sd) != 0] |>
    scale()

set.seed(params$seed)
smallSubset <- c(
    "CD5", "CSF2RB", "HSF1", "IRGC", "LRRC37A6P", "NEUROG2",
    "NLRC4", "PDE11A", "PIK3CB", "QARS", "RPGRIP1L", "SDC1",
    "TMEM31", "YME1L1", "ZBTB11",
    sample(colnames(xdataRaw), 100)
)

xdata <- xdataRaw[, smallSubset[smallSubset %in% colnames(xdataRaw)]]
ydata <- classV

3 Fit models

Fit model model penalizing by the hubs using the cross-validation function by cv.glmHub.

fitted <- cv.glmHub(xdata, ydata,
    family = "binomial",
    network = "correlation",
    nlambda = 1000,
    options = networkOptions(
        cutoff = .6,
        minDegree = .2
    )
)

4 Results of Cross Validation

Shows the results of 1000 different parameters used to find the optimal value in 10-fold cross-validation. The two vertical dotted lines represent the best model and a model with less variables selected (genes), but within a standard error distance from the best.

plot(fitted)

4.1 Coefficients of selected model from Cross-Validation

Taking the best model described by lambda.min

coefsCV <- Filter(function(.x) .x != 0, coef(fitted, s = "lambda.min")[, 1])
data.frame(
    ensembl.id = names(coefsCV),
    gene.name = geneNames(names(coefsCV))$external_gene_name,
    coefficient = coefsCV,
    stringsAsFactors = FALSE
) |>
    arrange(gene.name) |>
    knitr::kable()
ensembl.id gene.name coefficient
(Intercept) (Intercept) (Intercept) -6.8189813
AMOTL1 AMOTL1 AMOTL1 0.4430643
ATR ATR ATR 1.2498304
B3GALT2 B3GALT2 B3GALT2 -0.0867011
BAG2 BAG2 BAG2 -0.1841676
C16orf82 C16orf82 C16orf82 0.0396368
CD5 CD5 CD5 -1.1200445
CIITA CIITA CIITA 0.4256103
DCP1A DCP1A DCP1A 0.2994599
FAM86B1 FAM86B1 FAM86B1 0.2025463
FNIP2 FNIP2 FNIP2 0.6101759
GDF11 GDF11 GDF11 -0.2676642
GNG11 GNG11 GNG11 3.0659066
GREM2 GREM2 GREM2 -0.2014884
GZMB GZMB GZMB -2.7663574
HAX1 HAX1 HAX1 -0.1516837
IL2 IL2 IL2 0.6327083
MMP28 MMP28 MMP28 -0.8438024
MS4A4A MS4A4A MS4A4A 1.1614779
NDRG2 NDRG2 NDRG2 1.1142519
NLRC4 NLRC4 NLRC4 -1.4434578
PIK3CB PIK3CB PIK3CB -0.3880002
ZBTB11 ZBTB11 ZBTB11 -0.3325729

4.2 Accuracy

## [INFO] Misclassified (11)
## [INFO]   * False primary solid tumour: 7
## [INFO]   * False normal              : 4

Histogram of predicted response

ROC curve

## Setting levels: control = Primary Solid Tumor, case = Solid Tissue Normal
## Setting direction: controls < cases
## Warning: Using `size` aesthetic for lines was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0.
## ℹ Please use `linewidth` instead.
## This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
## Call `lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()` to see where this warning was
## generated.

5 Session Info

sessionInfo()
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