This vignette describes how to use the jointseg package to partition bivariate DNA copy number signals from SNP array data into segments of constant parent-specific copy number. We demonstrate the use of the PSSeg function of this package for applying two different strategies. Both strategies consist in first identifying a list of candidate change points through a fast (greedy) segmentation method, and then to prune this list is using dynamic programming [1]. The segmentation method presented here is Recursive Binary Segmentation (RBS, [2]). We refer to [3] for a more comprehensive performance assessment of this method and other segmentation methods. \paragraph{keywords:} segmentation, change point model, binary segmentation, dynamic programming, DNA copy number, parent-specific copy number.

Please see Appendix \ref{citation} for citing jointseg.

library("jointseg")

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library("knitr")
opts_chunk$set(dev='png', fig.width=5, fig.height=5)
opts_knit$set(eval.after = "fig.cap")

This vignette illustrates how the jointseg package may be used to generate a variety of copy-number profiles from the same biological ``truth''. Such profiles have been used to compare the performance of segmentation methods in [3].

Citing jointseg

citation("jointseg")

Setup

library("jointseg")

The parameters are defined as follows:

n <- 1e4                                 ## signal length
bkp <- c(2334, 6121)                     ## breakpoint positions
regions <- c("(1,1)", "(1,2)", "(0,2)")  ## copy number regions
ylims <- cbind(c(0, 5), c(-0.1, 1.1))
colG <- rep("#88888855", n)
hetCol <- "#00000088"

For convenience we define a custom plot function for this vignette:

plotFUN <- function(dataSet, tumorFraction) {
    regDat <- acnr::loadCnRegionData(dataSet=dataSet, tumorFraction=tumorFraction)
    sim <- getCopyNumberDataByResampling(n, bkp=bkp,
                                         regions=regions, regData=regDat)
    dat <- sim$profile
    wHet <- which(dat$genotype==1/2)
    colGG <- colG
    colGG[wHet] <- hetCol
    plotSeg(dat, sim$bkp, col=colGG)
}

Affymetrix data

ds <- "GSE29172"
pct <- 1
plotFUN(ds, pct)
plotFUN(ds, pct)
pct <- 0.7
plotFUN(ds, pct)
pct <- 0.5
plotFUN(ds, pct)

Illumina data

ds <- "GSE11976"

Session information

sessionInfo()

References

[1] Bellman, Richard. 1961. "On the Approximation of Curves by Line Segments Using Dynamic Programming." Communications of the ACM 4 (6). ACM: 284.

[2] Gey, Servane, et al. 2008. "Using CART to Detect Multiple Change Points in the Mean for Large Sample." https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00327146.

[3] Pierre-Jean, Morgane, et al. 2015. "Performance Evaluation of DNA Copy Number Segmentation Methods." Briefings in Bioinformatics, no. 4: 600-615.



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