Preprocess_CancerSite_Methylation450k: The Preprocess_CancerSite_Methylation450k function

In MethylMix: MethylMix: Identifying methylation driven cancer genes

Description

Internal. Pre-processes DNA methylation data from TCGA from Illymina 450k arrays.

Usage

Preprocess_CancerSite_Methylation450k(CancerSite, METdirectory,
  MissingValueThreshold = 0.2)

Arguments

CancerSite	character of length 1 with TCGA cancer code.
METdirectory	character with directory where a folder for downloaded files will be created. Can be the object returned by the Download_DNAmethylation function.
MissingValueThreshold	threshold for removing samples or genes with missing values.

Value

List with pre processed methylation data for cancer and normal samples.

MethylMix documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 11:08 p.m.