Customizing oncoplots

In maftools: Summarize, Analyze and Visualize MAF Files

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.align = 'left',
  fig.height = 5,
  fig.width = 10
)

library(maftools)

#path to TCGA LAML MAF file
laml.maf = system.file('extdata', 'tcga_laml.maf.gz', package = 'maftools')
#clinical information containing survival information and histology. This is optional
laml.clin = system.file('extdata', 'tcga_laml_annot.tsv', package = 'maftools')

laml = read.maf(maf = laml.maf,
                clinicalData = laml.clin,
                verbose = FALSE)

Including Transition/Transversions into oncoplot

#By default the function plots top20 mutated genes
oncoplot(maf = laml, draw_titv = TRUE)

Changing colors for variant classifications

#One can use any colors, here in this example color palette from RColorBrewer package is used
vc_cols = RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(n = 8, name = 'Paired')
names(vc_cols) = c(
  'Frame_Shift_Del',
  'Missense_Mutation',
  'Nonsense_Mutation',
  'Multi_Hit',
  'Frame_Shift_Ins',
  'In_Frame_Ins',
  'Splice_Site',
  'In_Frame_Del'
)

print(vc_cols)

oncoplot(maf = laml, colors = vc_cols, top = 10)

Including copy number data into oncoplots.

There are two ways one include CN status into MAF. 1. GISTIC results 2. Custom copy number table

GISTIC results

Most widely used tool for copy number analysis from large scale studies is GISTIC and we can simultaneously read gistic results along with MAF. GISTIC generates numerous files but we need mainly four files all_lesions.conf_XX.txt, amp_genes.conf_XX.txt, del_genes.conf_XX.txt, scores.gistic where XX is confidence level. These files contain significantly altered genomic regions along with amplified and deleted genes respectively.

#GISTIC results LAML
all.lesions =
  system.file("extdata", "all_lesions.conf_99.txt", package = "maftools")
amp.genes =
  system.file("extdata", "amp_genes.conf_99.txt", package = "maftools")
del.genes =
  system.file("extdata", "del_genes.conf_99.txt", package = "maftools")
scores.gis =
  system.file("extdata", "scores.gistic", package = "maftools")

#Read GISTIC results along with MAF
laml.plus.gistic = read.maf(
  maf = laml.maf,
  gisticAllLesionsFile = all.lesions,
  gisticAmpGenesFile = amp.genes,
  gisticDelGenesFile = del.genes,
  gisticScoresFile = scores.gis,
  isTCGA = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE, 
  clinicalData = laml.clin
)

oncoplot(maf = laml.plus.gistic, top = 10)

This plot shows frequent deletions in TP53 gene which is located on one of the significantly deleted locus 17p13.2.

Custom copy-number table

In case there is no GISTIC results available, one can generate a table containing CN status for known genes in known samples. This can be easily created and read along with MAF file.

For example lets create a dummy CN alterations for DNMT3A in random 20 samples.

set.seed(seed = 1024)
barcodes = as.character(getSampleSummary(x = laml)[,Tumor_Sample_Barcode])
#Random 20 samples
dummy.samples = sample(x = barcodes,
                       size = 20,
                       replace = FALSE)

#Genarate random CN status for above samples
cn.status = sample(
  x = c('ShallowAmp', 'DeepDel', 'Del', 'Amp'),
  size = length(dummy.samples),
  replace = TRUE
)

custom.cn.data = data.frame(
  Gene = "DNMT3A",
  Sample_name = dummy.samples,
  CN = cn.status,
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)

head(custom.cn.data)

laml.plus.cn = read.maf(maf = laml.maf,
                        cnTable = custom.cn.data,
                        verbose = FALSE)

oncoplot(maf = laml.plus.cn, top = 5)

Bar plots

leftBarData, rightBarData and topBarData arguments can be used to display additional values as barplots. Below example demonstrates adding gene expression values and mutsig q-values as left and right side bars respectivelly.

#Selected AML driver genes
aml_genes = c("TP53", "WT1", "PHF6", "DNMT3A", "DNMT3B", "TET1", "TET2", "IDH1", "IDH2", "FLT3", "KIT", "KRAS", "NRAS", "RUNX1", "CEBPA", "ASXL1", "EZH2", "KDM6A")

#Variant allele frequcnies (Right bar plot)
aml_genes_vaf = subsetMaf(maf = laml, genes = aml_genes, fields = "i_TumorVAF_WU", mafObj = FALSE)[,mean(i_TumorVAF_WU, na.rm = TRUE), Hugo_Symbol]
colnames(aml_genes_vaf)[2] = "VAF"
head(aml_genes_vaf)

#MutSig results (Right bar plot)
laml.mutsig = system.file("extdata", "LAML_sig_genes.txt.gz", package = "maftools")
laml.mutsig = data.table::fread(input = laml.mutsig)[,.(gene, q)]
laml.mutsig[,q := -log10(q)] #transoform to log10
head(laml.mutsig)


oncoplot(
  maf = laml,
  genes = aml_genes,
  leftBarData = aml_genes_vaf,
  leftBarLims = c(0, 100),
  rightBarData = laml.mutsig,
  rightBarLims = c(0, 20)
)

Including annotations

Annotations are stored in clinical.data slot of MAF.

getClinicalData(x = laml)

Include FAB_classification from clinical data as one of the sample annotations.

oncoplot(maf = laml, genes = aml_genes, clinicalFeatures = 'FAB_classification')

More than one annotations can be included by passing them to the argument clinicalFeatures. Above plot can be further enhanced by sorting according to annotations. Custom colors can be specified as a list of named vectors for each levels.

#Color coding for FAB classification
fabcolors = RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(n = 8,name = 'Spectral')
names(fabcolors) = c("M0", "M1", "M2", "M3", "M4", "M5", "M6", "M7")
fabcolors = list(FAB_classification = fabcolors)

print(fabcolors)

oncoplot(
  maf = laml, genes = aml_genes,
  clinicalFeatures = 'FAB_classification',
  sortByAnnotation = TRUE,
  annotationColor = fabcolors
)

Highlighting samples

If you prefer to highlight mutations by a specific attribute, you can use additionalFeature argument.

Example: Highlight all mutations where alt allele is C.

oncoplot(maf = laml, genes = aml_genes,
         additionalFeature = c("Tumor_Seq_Allele2", "C"))

Note that first argument (Tumor_Seq_Allele2) must a be column in MAF file, and second argument (C) is a value in that column. If you want to know what columns are present in the MAF file, use getFields.

getFields(x = laml)

Group by Pathways

Genes can be auto grouped based on their Biological processess by setting pathways = 'auto' or by providing custom pathway list in the form of a two column tsv file or a data.frame containing gene names and their corresponding pathway.

Auto

setting pathways = 'auto' draws top 3 most affected pathways

oncoplot(maf = laml, pathways = "auto", gene_mar = 8, fontSize = 0.6)

Custom pathways

pathways = data.frame(
  Genes = c(
    "TP53",
    "WT1",
    "PHF6",
    "DNMT3A",
    "DNMT3B",
    "TET1",
    "TET2",
    "IDH1",
    "IDH2",
    "FLT3",
    "KIT",
    "KRAS",
    "NRAS",
    "RUNX1",
    "CEBPA",
    "ASXL1",
    "EZH2",
    "KDM6A"
  ),
  Pathway = rep(c(
    "TSG", "DNAm", "Signalling", "TFs", "ChromMod"
  ), c(3, 6, 4, 2, 3)),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)

head(pathways)

oncoplot(maf = laml, pathways = pathways, gene_mar = 8, fontSize = 0.6)

Combining everything

oncoplot(
  maf = laml.plus.gistic,
  draw_titv = TRUE,
  pathways = pathways,
  clinicalFeatures = c('FAB_classification', 'Overall_Survival_Status'),
  sortByAnnotation = TRUE,
  additionalFeature = c("Tumor_Seq_Allele2", "C"),
  leftBarData = aml_genes_vaf,
  leftBarLims = c(0, 100),
  rightBarData = laml.mutsig[,.(gene, q)],
)

SessionInfo

sessionInfo()

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