DeMixT_DE: Estimates the proportions of mixed samples for each mixing...

In DeMixT: Cell type-specific deconvolution of heterogeneous tumor samples with two or three components using expression data from RNAseq or microarray platforms

Description

This function is designed to estimate the deconvolved expressions of individual mixed tumor samples for unknown component for each gene.

Usage

DeMixT_DE(
  data.Y,
  data.N1,
  data.N2 = NULL,
  niter = 10,
  nbin = 50,
  if.filter = TRUE,
  filter.sd = 0.5,
  ngene.selected.for.pi = NA,
  nspikein = NULL,
  mean.diff.in.CM = 0.25,
  tol = 10^(-5),
  pi01 = NULL,
  pi02 = NULL,
  nthread = parallel::detectCores() - 1
)

Arguments

data.Y	A SummarizedExperiment object of expression data from mixed tumor samples. It is a G by My matrix where G is the number of genes and My is the number of mixed samples. Samples with the same tissue type should be placed together in columns.
data.N1	A SummarizedExperiment object of expression data from reference component 1 (e.g., normal). It is a G by M1 matrix where G is the number of genes and M1 is the number of samples for component 1.
data.N2	A SummarizedExperiment object of expression data from additional reference samples. It is a G by M2 matrix where G is the number of genes and M2 is the number of samples for component 2. Component 2 is needed only for running a three-component model.
niter	The maximum number of iterations used in the algorithm of iterated conditional modes. A larger value better guarantees the convergence in estimation but increases the running time. The default is 10.
nbin	The number of bins used in numerical integration for computing complete likelihood. A larger value increases accuracy in estimation but increases the running time, especially in a three-component deconvolution problem. The default is 50.
if.filter	The logical flag indicating whether a predetermined filter rule is used to select genes for proportion estimation. The default is TRUE.
filter.sd	The cut-off for the standard deviation of lognormal distribution. Genes whose log transferred standard deviation smaller than the cut-off will be selected into the model. The default is 0.5.
ngene.selected.for.pi	The percentage or the number of genes used for proportion estimation. The difference between the expression levels from mixed tumor samples and the known component(s) are evaluated, and the most differential expressed genes are selected, which is called DE. It is enabled when if.filter = TRUE. The default is min(1500, 0.3*My), where My is the number of mixed sample. Users can also try using more genes, ranging from 0.3*My to 0.5*My, and evaluate the outcome.
nspikein	The number of spikes in normal reference used for proportion estimation. The default value is min(200, 0.3*My), where My the number of mixed samples. If it is set to 0, proportion estimation is performed without any spike in normal reference.
mean.diff.in.CM	Threshold of expression difference for selecting genes in the component merging strategy. We merge three-component to two-component by selecting genes with similar expressions for the two known components. Genes with the mean differences less than the threshold will be selected for component merging. It is used in the three-component setting, and is enabled when if.filter = TRUE. The default is 0.25.
tol	The convergence criterion. The default is 10^(-5).
pi01	Initialized proportion for first kown component. The default is Null and pi01 will be generated randomly from uniform distribution.
pi02	Initialized proportion for second kown component. pi02 is needed only for running a three-component model. The default is Null and pi02 will be generated randomly from uniform distribution.
nthread	The number of threads used for deconvolution when OpenMP is available in the system. The default is the number of whole threads minus one. In our no-OpenMP version, it is set to 1.

Value

pi	A matrix of estimated proportion. First row and second row corresponds to the proportion estimate for the known components and unkown component respectively for two or three component settings, and each column corresponds to one sample.
pi.iter	Estimated proportions in each iteration. It is a niter *Ny*p array, where p is the number of components. This is enabled only when output.more.info = TRUE.
gene.name	The names of genes used in estimating the proportions. If no gene names are provided in the original data set, the genes will be automatically indexed.

Author(s)

Zeya Wang, Wenyi Wang

References

Wang Z, Cao S, Morris J S, et al. Transcriptome Deconvolution of Heterogeneous Tumor Samples with Immune Infiltration. iScience, 2018, 9: 451-460.

See Also

http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/main/DeMixT

Examples

# Example 1: estimate proportions for simulated two-component data 
# with spike-in normal reference
  data(test.data.2comp)
# res.DE = DeMixT_DE(data.Y = test.data.2comp$data.Y, 
#                    data.N1 = test.data.2comp$data.N1,
#                    niter = 10, nbin = 50, nspikein = 50,
#                    if.filter = TRUE, 
#                    mean.diff.in.CM = 0.25, ngene.selected.for.pi = 150,
#                    tol = 10^(-5))
#
# Example 2: estimate proportions for simulated two-component data 
# without spike-in normal reference
# data(test.data.2comp)
# res.DE = DeMixT_DE(data.Y = test.data.2comp$data.Y, 
#                    data.N1 = test.data.2comp$data.N1,
#                    niter = 10, nbin = 50, nspikein = 0,
#                    if.filter = TRUE, 
#                    mean.diff.in.CM = 0.25, ngene.selected.for.pi = 150,
#                    tol = 10^(-5))
#
# Example 3: estimate proportions for simulated three-component 
# mixed cell line data 
# data(test.data.3comp)
# res.DE <- DeMixT_DE(data.Y = test.data.3comp$data.Y,
#                     data.N1 = test.data.3comp$data.N1,
#                     data.N2 = test.data.3comp$data.N2, 
#                     if.filter = TRUE)

DeMixT documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 6:41 p.m.