R: Detection of genes with changes in expression

BASiCS_TestDE {BASiCS}

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Detection of genes with changes in expression

Description

Function to assess changes in expression between two groups of cells (mean and over-dispersion)

Usage

BASiCS_TestDE(Chain1, Chain2, EpsilonM = log2(1.5), EpsilonD = log2(1.5),
  ProbThresholdM = NULL, ProbThresholdD = NULL, OrderVariable = "Prob",
  GroupLabel1 = "Group1", GroupLabel2 = "Group2", Plot = TRUE,
  PlotOffset = TRUE, Offset = TRUE, EFDR_M = 0.1, EFDR_D = 0.1,
  GenesSelect = NULL, ...)

Arguments

`Chain1`	an object of class `BASiCS_Chain` containing parameter estimates for the first group of cells
`Chain2`	an object of class `BASiCS_Chain` containing parameter estimates for the second group of cells
`EpsilonM`	Minimum fold change tolerance threshold for detecting changes in overall expression (must be a positive real number). Default value: `EpsilonM = log2(1.5)` (i.e. 50% increase).
`EpsilonD`	Minimum fold change tolerance threshold for detecting changes in biological over-dispersion (must be a positive real number). Default value: `EpsilonM = log2(1.5)` (i.e. 50% increase).
`ProbThresholdM`	Optional parameter. Probdence threshold for detecting changes in overall expression (must be a positive value, between 0 and 1)
`ProbThresholdD`	Optional parameter. Probdence threshold for detecting changes in cell-to-cell biological over-dispersion (must be a positive value, between 0 and 1)
`OrderVariable`	Ordering variable for output. Possible values: `'GeneIndex'`, `'GeneName'` and `'Prob'`.
`GroupLabel1`	Label assigned to reference group. Default: `GroupLabel1 = 'Group1'`
`GroupLabel2`	Label assigned to reference group. Default: `GroupLabel2 = 'Group2'`
`Plot`	If `Plot = TRUE`, MA and volcano plots are generated.
`PlotOffset`	If `Plot = TRUE`, the offset effect is visualised.
`Offset`	Optional argument to remove a fix offset effect (if not previously removed from the MCMC chains). Default: `Offset = TRUE`.
`EFDR_M`	Target for expected false discovery rate related to the comparison of means. Default `EFDR_M = 0.10`.
`EFDR_D`	Target for expected false discovery rate related to the comparison of dispersions. Default `EFDR_D = 0.10`.
`GenesSelect`	Optional argument to provide a user-defined list of genes to be considered for the comparison. Default: `GenesSelect = NULL`. When used, this argument must be a vector of `TRUE` (include gene) / `FALSE` (exclude gene) indicator, with the same length as the number of intrinsic genes and following the same order as how genes are displayed in the table of counts. This argument is necessary in order to have a meaningful EFDR calibration when the user decides to exclude some genes from the comparison.
`...`	Graphical parameters (see `par`).

Value

BASiCS_TestDE returns a list of 4 elements:

TableMean

A data.frame containing the results of the differential mean test

GeneName: Gene name
MeanOverall: For each gene, the estimated mean expression parameter μ_i is averaged across both groups of cells (weighted by sample size).
Mean1: Estimated mean expression parameter μ_i for each biological gene in the first group of cells.
Mean2: Estimated mean expression parameter μ_i for each biological gene in the second group of cells.
MeanFC: Fold change in mean expression parameters between the first and second groups of cells.
MeanLog2FC: Log2-transformed fold change in mean expression between the first and second groups of cells.
ProbDiffMean: Posterior probability for mean expression difference between the first and second groups of cells.
ResultDiffExp: Indicator if a gene has a higher mean expression in the first or second groups of cells.

TableDisp

A data.frame containing the results of the differential dispersion test (excludes genes for which the mean does not changes).

GeneName: Gene name
MeanOverall: For each gene, the estimated mean expression parameter μ_i is averaged across both groups of cells (weighted by sample size).
DispOverall: For each gene, the estimated over-dispersion parameter δ_i is averaged across both groups of cells (weighted by sample size).
Disp1: Estimated over-dispersion parameter δ_i for each biological gene in the first group of cells.
Disp2: Estimated over-dispersion parameter δ_i for each biological gene in the second group of cells.
DispFC: Fold change in over-dispersion parameters between the between the first and second groups of cells.
DispLog2FC: Log-transformed fold change in over-dispersion between the first and second groups of cells.
ProbDiffDisp: Posterior probability for over-dispersion difference between the first and second groups of cells.
ResultDiffDisp: Indicator if a gene has a higher over-dispersion in the first or second groups of cells.

DiffExpSummary

A list containing the following information for the differential mean expression test:

ProbThreshold: Posterior probability threshold.
EFDR: Expected false discovery rate for the given thresholds.
EFNR: Expected false negative rate for the given thresholds.

DiffOverDispSummary

A list containing the following information for the differential over-dispersion test:

ProbThreshold: Posterior probability threshold.
EFDR: Expected false discovery rate for the given thresholds.
EFNR: Expected false negative rate for the given thresholds.

Chain1_offset

an BASiCS_Chain object: Chain1 after offset removal.

Chain2_offset

an BASiCS_Chain object: Chain2 after offset removal (this is only provided for completeness; Chain2 is not affected by the offset).

OffsetChain

MCMC chain calculated for the offset effect.

Offset

Estimated offset (posterior median of OffsetChain). Default value set equal to 1 when offset correction is not performed.

Author(s)

Catalina A. Vallejos cnvallej@uc.cl and Nils Eling

References

Vallejos, Richardson and Marioni (2016). Genome Biology.

Examples


# Loading two 'BASiCS_Chain' objects (obtained using 'BASiCS_MCMC')
data(ChainSC)
data(ChainRNA)

Test <- BASiCS_TestDE(Chain1 = ChainSC, Chain2 = ChainRNA,
                      GroupLabel1 = 'SC', GroupLabel2 = 'P&S',
                      EpsilonM = log2(1.5), EpsilonD = log2(1.5), 
                      OffSet = TRUE)
                      
# Results for the differential mean test
head(Test$TableMean)

# Results for the differential over-dispersion test
# This only includes genes marked as 'NoDiff' in Test$TableMean 
head(Test$TableDisp)

[Package BASiCS version 1.0.1 Index]