tcga_colon_blocks: Example methylation data (blocks) for epivizr vignette.
In epivizr: R Interface to epiviz web app

Description Usage Format Source

Example results from methylation analysis of human chromosome 11 using the minfi::minfi-package package of TCGA 450k beadarray samples. This object contains large regions of methylation difference between tumor and normal samples obtained from minfi::blockFinder().

1	data(tcga_colon_blocks)

A GRanges object with 129 and mcols:

value: average smooth methylation difference within block
area: block area estimate (abs(value) * length)
cluster: id of cluster blockgroup within which block occurs
indexStart: index of first cluster in block
indexEnd: index of last cluster in block
L: number of clusters in block
clusterL: number of probes in block
p.value: permutation p.value based on difference conditioned on length
fwer: family-wise error rate estimate based on difference conditioned on length
p.valueArea: permutation p.value based on area
fwerArea: family-wise error rate estimate based on area