RefFreeCellMixInitialize: Initialize Reference-Free Cell Mixture Projection

In RefFreeEWAS: EWAS using Reference-Free DNA Methylation Mixture Deconvolution

Description

Initializes the methylome matrix "Mu" for RefFreeCellMix

Usage

RefFreeCellMixInitialize(Y,K=2,Y.Distance=NULL, Y.Cluster=NULL, 
    largeOK=FALSE, dist.method = "euclidean", ...)

Arguments

Y	Matrix (m CpGs x n Subjects) of DNA methylation beta values
K	Number of cell types
Y.Distance	Distance matrix (object of class "dist") to use for clustering.
Y.Cluster	Hiearchical clustering object (from hclust function)
largeOK	OK to calculate distance matrix for large number of subjects? (See details.)
dist.method	Method for calculating distance matrix
...	Additional parameters for hclust function

Details

Initializes the methylome matrix "Mu" for RefFreeCellMix by computing the mean methylation (from Y) over K clusters of Y, determined by the Y.Cluster object. If Y.Cluster object does not exist, it will be created from Y.Distance (using additional clustering parameters if supplied). If Y.Distance does not exist, it will be created from t(Y). As a protection against attempting to fit a very large distance matrix, the program will stop if the number of columns of Y is > 2500, unless largeOK is explicitly set to TRUE.

Value

An m x K matrix of mean methylation values.

Author(s)

E. Andres Houseman

See Also

RefFreeCellMix

RefFreeEWAS documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:52 a.m.