Introduction

The software in this package aims to support refinements and functional interpretation of members of a collection of association statistics on a family of feature \(\times\) genome hypotheses. provide a basis for refinement or functional interpretation.

We take for granted the use of the gQTL* infrastructure for testing and management of test results. We use for examples elements of the geuvPack and geuvStore2 packages.

Basic infrastructure for statistics on a distributed store of eQTL results

We work with a ciseStore instance based on a small subset of transcriptome-wide cis-eQTL tests for GEUVADIS FPKM data. The overall testing procedure was conducted for all SNP:probe pairs for which SNP minor allele frequency (MAF) is at least 1% and for which the minimum distance between SNP and either boundary of the gene coding region for the probe is at most 1 million bp.

library(geuvStore2)
library(gQTLBase)
library(gQTLstats)
library(parallel)
nco = detectCores()
library(doParallel)
## Loading required package: foreach
## Loading required package: iterators
registerDoSEQ()
if (.Platform$OS.type != "windows") {
  registerDoParallel(cores=max(c(1, floor(nco/2))))
}
prst = makeGeuvStore2() 

Estimation of quantiles of the distribution of observed associations

Quantile estimation is very memory-efficient, based on a temporary ff representation of the vector of all association test results.

qassoc = storeToQuantiles(prst, field="chisq",
    probs=c(seq(0,.999,.001), 1-(c(1e-4,1e-5,1e-6))))
tail(qassoc)
##     99.7%     99.8%     99.9%    99.99%   99.999%  99.9999% 
##  20.82392  29.06245  54.93786 193.82782 220.55134 235.75722

Estimation of histogram of the distribution of association scores under permutation

Because we compute fixed breaks, contributions to the overall histogram can be assembled in parallel, with small footprint. This is a tremendous reduction of data.

hh = storeToHist( prst, breaks= c(0,qassoc,1e9) )
tail(hh$counts)
## [1] 4333 1933  416    0    0    1

Computing FDR from a gqtlStore

FDR computation is post-hoc relative to filtering that need not be specified prior to testing. For illustration, we survey the results in geuvStore2 to obtain FDRs for each SNP:probe pair in two forms. First, we obtain FDR without any filtering. Second, we compute an a FDR for those SNP:probe pairs separated by at most 500kb, and for which the MAF for the SNP is at least 5 per cent.

rawFDR = storeToFDR(prst, 
   xprobs=c(seq(.05,.95,.05),.975,.990,.995,.9975,.999, 
   .9995, .9999, .99999) )
## counting tests...
## counting #NA...
## obtaining assoc quantiles...
## computing perm_assoc histogram....
dmfilt = function(x)  # define the filtering function
     x[ which(x$MAF >= 0.05 & x$mindist <= 500000) ] 
filtFDR = storeToFDR(prst, 
   xprobs=c(seq(.05,.95,.05),.975,.990,.995,.9975,.999, 
   .9995, .9999, .99999), filter = dmfilt )
## counting tests...
## counting #NA...
## obtaining assoc quantiles...
## computing perm_assoc histogram....
rawFDR
## FDRsupp instance with 27 rows.
##           assoc       fdr  ncalls avg.false
## 5%  0.003666364 0.9503595 5874027   5582437
## 10% 0.014663963 0.9489049 5564867   5280530
## 15% 0.033307623 0.9466335 5255708   4975229
## ...
##            assoc          fdr     ncalls avg.false
## 99.95%  157.9120 5.390964e-05 3091.59300 0.1666667
## 99.99%  193.8278 2.695482e-04  618.31860 0.1666667
## 99.999% 220.5513 0.000000e+00   61.83186 0.0000000
## No interpolating function is available; use 'setFDRfunc'.
filtFDR
## FDRsupp instance with 27 rows.
##           assoc       fdr  ncalls avg.false
## 5%  0.004052362 0.9461793 2102872   1989694
## 10% 0.016469885 0.9415121 1992194   1875675
## 15% 0.037696938 0.9363941 1881517   1761841
## ...
##            assoc fdr     ncalls avg.false
## 99.95%  193.8278   0 1106.77450         0
## 99.99%  194.9828   0  221.35490         0
## 99.999% 228.3958   0   22.13549         0
## No interpolating function is available; use 'setFDRfunc'.

The filtering leads to a lower FDR for a given strength of association. This is an inspiration for sensitivity analysis. Even with 5 million observations there is an effect of histogram bin selection in summarizing the permutation distribution of association. This can be seen fairly clearly in the wiggliness of the trace over the unfiltered association score:FDR plot.

rawtab = getTab(rawFDR)
filttab = getTab(filtFDR)
 plot(rawtab[-(1:10),"assoc"], 
      -log10(rawtab[-(1:10),"fdr"]+1e-6), log="x", axes=FALSE,
  xlab="Observed association", ylab="-log10 plugin FDR")
 axis(1, at=c(seq(0,10,1),100,200))
 axis(2)
 points(filttab[-(1:10),1], -log10(filttab[-(1:10),2]+1e-6), pch=2)
 legend(1, 5, pch=c(1,2), legend=c("all loci", "MAF >= 0.05 & dist <= 500k"))

We’ll address this below by fitting smooth functions for the score:FDR relationship.

Estimates of FDR at the probe level

The storeToFDRByProbe FDR function examines the maximal association score by gene, for observed and permuted measures.
Good performance of this procedure is obtained by using group_by and summarize utilities of dplyr. Iteration employs foreach.

fdbp = storeToFDRByProbe( prst, xprobs=c(seq(.025,.975,.025),.99))
tail(getTab(fdbp),5)
fdAtM05bp = storeToFDRByProbe( prst, filter=function(x) x[which(x$MAF > .05)],
   xprobs=c(seq(.025,.975,.025),.99))
tail(getTab(fdAtM05bp),5)

Modeling the association-FDR relationship to support efficient variant selection and annotation

Choosing a smooth model for the association:FDR relationship

We’ll focus here on all-pairs analysis, with and without filtering.

Especially in this small example there will be some wiggling or even non-monotonicity in the trace of empirical FDR against association. We want to be able to compute the approximate FDR quickly and with minimal assumptions and pathology. To accomplish this, we will bind an interpolating model to the FDR estimates that we have. Interpolation will be accomplished with scatterplot smoothing in the mgcv framework.

The code that is used to fit the interpolating model is

 fdrmod = gam(-log10(fdr+fudge)~s(assoc,bs="tp"), data=...,
    subset=assoc<(1.1*maxch))

where fudge defaults to 1e-6 and maxch defaults to 30

library(mgcv)
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## 
## Attaching package: 'nlme'
## The following object is masked from 'package:BBmisc':
## 
##     collapse
## The following object is masked from 'package:IRanges':
## 
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## This is mgcv 1.8-31. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
rawFDR = setFDRfunc(rawFDR)
filtFDR = setFDRfunc(filtFDR)
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
txsPlot(rawFDR)
txsPlot(filtFDR)
directPlot(rawFDR)
directPlot(filtFDR)

More work is needed on assessing tolerability of relative error in FDR interpolation.

Enumerating significant cis-eQTL in a store

Recall that dmfilt is a function that obtains the SNP-probe pairs for which SNP has MAF at least five percent and SNP-probe distance at most 500kbp.

We use the FDRsupp instances with ciseStore to list the SNP-probe pairs with FDR lying beneath a given upper bound.

Unfiltered pairs:

rawEnum = enumerateByFDR(prst, rawFDR, threshold=.05) 
rawEnum[order(rawEnum$chisq,decreasing=TRUE)[1:3]]
## GRanges object with 3 ranges and 15 metadata columns:
##      seqnames    ranges strand |      paramRangeID            REF
##         <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> |          <factor> <DNAStringSet>
##   55       14 106552724      * | ENSG00000211968.2              C
##   15        1  54683925      * | ENSG00000231581.1              G
##   15        1  54685855      * | ENSG00000231581.1              G
##                  ALT     chisq permScore_1 permScore_2 permScore_3 permScore_4
##      <CharacterList> <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>
##   55               T   244.347   0.0501552   0.0619204     1.11877   0.0128366
##   15               A   242.443   3.8005324   0.0717419     0.31365   0.0787366
##   15               A   242.443   3.8005324   0.0717419     0.31365   0.0787366
##      permScore_5 permScore_6         snp        MAF           probeid   mindist
##        <numeric>   <numeric> <character>  <numeric>       <character> <numeric>
##   55   0.0108659 0.000311471 rs587662269 0.00449438 ENSG00000211968.2    525649
##   15   4.9822362 0.044368761      rs6621 0.12584270 ENSG00000231581.1      6256
##   15   4.9822362 0.044368761  rs33988698 0.12584270 ENSG00000231581.1      4326
##         estFDR
##      <numeric>
##   55         0
##   15         0
##   15         0
##   -------
##   seqinfo: 86 sequences from hg19 genome
length(rawEnum)
## [1] 44750

A small quantity of metadata is bound into the resulting GRanges instance.

names(metadata(rawEnum))
##  [1] "sessInfo"           "init.Random.seed"   "dimSummex"         
##  [4] "rowRangesSummex"    "vcf.tf"             "vcfHeader"         
##  [7] "requestSize"        "nRequestsSatisfied" "dimliteGT"         
## [10] "theCall"            "enumCall"           "enumSess"          
## [13] "fdrCall"

Pairs meeting MAF and distance conditions are obtained with a filter setting to the enumerating function.

filtEnum = enumerateByFDR(prst, filtFDR, threshold=.05,
   filter=dmfilt) 
filtEnum[order(filtEnum$chisq,decreasing=TRUE)[1:3]]
## GRanges object with 3 ranges and 15 metadata columns:
##      seqnames    ranges strand |      paramRangeID            REF
##         <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> |          <factor> <DNAStringSet>
##   15        1  54683925      * | ENSG00000231581.1              G
##   15        1  54685855      * | ENSG00000231581.1              G
##   15        1  54683014      * | ENSG00000231581.1              C
##                  ALT     chisq permScore_1 permScore_2 permScore_3 permScore_4
##      <CharacterList> <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>
##   15               A   242.443     3.80053   0.0717419    0.313650   0.0787366
##   15               A   242.443     3.80053   0.0717419    0.313650   0.0787366
##   15               G   241.973     4.22501   0.0223164    0.209243   0.0274453
##      permScore_5 permScore_6         snp       MAF           probeid   mindist
##        <numeric>   <numeric> <character> <numeric>       <character> <numeric>
##   15     4.98224   0.0443688      rs6621  0.125843 ENSG00000231581.1      6256
##   15     4.98224   0.0443688  rs33988698  0.125843 ENSG00000231581.1      4326
##   15     4.32654   0.0510412   rs1410896  0.122472 ENSG00000231581.1      7167
##         estFDR
##      <numeric>
##   15         0
##   15         0
##   15         0
##   -------
##   seqinfo: 86 sequences from hg19 genome
length(filtEnum)
## [1] 81837

Sensitivity analysis for eQTL enumeration

The yield of an enumeration procedure depends on filtering based on SNP-gene distance and SNP MAF. This can be illustrated as follows, with minimal computational effort owing to the retention of genome-scale permutations and the use of the plug-in FDR algorithm.

data(sensByProbe) # see example(senstab) for construction approach
tab = senstab( sensByProbe )
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## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values

## Warning in regularize.values(x, y, ties, missing(ties), na.rm = na.rm):
## collapsing to unique 'x' values
plot(tab)

If we wish to maximize the yield of eQTL enumeration at FDR at most 0.05, we can apply a filter to the store.

flens = storeApply( prst, function(x) {
    length(x[ which(x$MAF >= .08 & x$mindist <= 25000), ] )
})
sum(unlist(flens))
## [1] 175988

This is a count of gene-snp pairs satisfying structural and genetic criteria.

Visualizing and annotating significant loci

Re-binding probe annotation from RangedSummarizedExperiment

In the case of geuFPKM there is some relevant metadata in the rowRanges element. We will bind that into the collection of significant findings.

library(geuvPack)
data(geuFPKM)
basic = mcols(rowRanges(geuFPKM))[, c("gene_id", "gene_status", "gene_type",
    "gene_name")]
rownames(basic) = basic$gene_id
extr = basic[ filtEnum$probeid, ]
mcols(filtEnum) = cbind(mcols(filtEnum), extr)
stopifnot(all.equal(filtEnum$probeid, filtEnum$gene_id))
filtEnum[1:3]
## GRanges object with 3 ranges and 19 metadata columns:
##     seqnames    ranges strand |      paramRangeID            REF
##        <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> |          <factor> <DNAStringSet>
##   1        1    940005      * | ENSG00000215915.5              A
##   1        1    941539      * | ENSG00000215915.5              C
##   1        1   1357992      * | ENSG00000215915.5              C
##                 ALT     chisq permScore_1 permScore_2 permScore_3 permScore_4
##     <CharacterList> <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>
##   1               G   6.01991   0.1080638 0.000327623   0.0865779   0.0043722
##   1               T   6.41084   0.0936188 0.007244507   0.0756189   0.3935886
##   1               T   6.10357   1.3783709 0.184207535   0.6716683   3.3793913
##     permScore_5 permScore_6         snp       MAF           probeid   mindist
##       <numeric>   <numeric> <character> <numeric>       <character> <numeric>
##   1   0.0766232   0.3580752   rs2799056 0.4146067 ENSG00000215915.5    445064
##   1   0.0731399   0.3412637   rs9778087 0.4191011 ENSG00000215915.5    443530
##   1   1.3557961   0.0174709   rs3737716 0.0651685 ENSG00000215915.5     27077
##        estFDR           gene_id gene_status      gene_type   gene_name
##     <numeric>       <character> <character>    <character> <character>
##   1 0.0488083 ENSG00000215915.5       KNOWN protein_coding      ATAD3C
##   1 0.0314624 ENSG00000215915.5       KNOWN protein_coding      ATAD3C
##   1 0.0445583 ENSG00000215915.5       KNOWN protein_coding      ATAD3C
##   -------
##   seqinfo: 86 sequences from hg19 genome

Static visualization of FDR patterns

We have a utility to create an annotated Manhattan plot for a search cis to a gene. The basic ingredients are

  • a ciseStore instance for basic location and association information
  • a gene identifier that works for that store
  • an FDRsupp instance that includes the function that maps from association scores to FDR, and the filter employed during FDR estimation
  • an annotation resource; here we use ChromHMM labeling based on NA12878, in the hmm878 GRanges instance in gQTLstats/data.

It is important to recognize that, given an FDRsupp instance we can compute the FDR for any association score, but validity of the FDR attribution requires that we refrain from computing it for any locus excluded by filtering. the manhWngr executes the FDRsupp-resident filter by default.

data(hmm878)
library(geuvStore2)
prst = makeGeuvStore2() 
myg = "ENSG00000183814.10" # LIN9
data(filtFDR)
library(ggplot2)
manhWngr( store = prst, probeid = myg, sym="LIN9",
  fdrsupp=filtFDR, namedGR=hmm878 )
## assuming Homo.sapiens for gene models
## 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns

For a dynamic visualization procedure, see the vjcitn/gQTLbrowse github archive.

Basic structural variant annotation

We can use VariantAnnotation to establish basic structural characteristics for all filtered variants.

suppressPackageStartupMessages({
library(VariantAnnotation)
library(TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene)
})
txdb = TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene
seqlevelsStyle(filtEnum) = "UCSC"
#seqinfo(filtEnum) = seqinfo(txdb)
seqlengths(filtEnum)[paste0("chr", c(1:22,"M"))] = 
 seqlengths(txdb)[paste0("chr", c(1:22,"M"))]
filtEnum = keepStandardChromosomes(filtEnum)
suppressWarnings({
allv = locateVariants(filtEnum, txdb, AllVariants()) # multiple recs per eQTL 
})
## 'select()' returned many:1 mapping between keys and columns
## 'select()' returned many:1 mapping between keys and columns
## 'select()' returned many:1 mapping between keys and columns
## 'select()' returned many:1 mapping between keys and columns
## 'select()' returned many:1 mapping between keys and columns
## 'select()' returned many:1 mapping between keys and columns
table(allv$LOCATION)
## 
## spliceSite     intron    fiveUTR   threeUTR     coding intergenic   promoter 
##         25     139426       1037       4000       3233      36111      11072
hits = findOverlaps( filtEnum, allv )
filtEex = filtEnum[ queryHits(hits) ]
mcols(filtEex) = cbind(mcols(filtEex), mcols(allv[subjectHits(hits)])[,1:7])
filtEex[1:3]
## GRanges object with 3 ranges and 26 metadata columns:
##     seqnames    ranges strand |      paramRangeID            REF
##        <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> |          <factor> <DNAStringSet>
##   1     chr1    940005      * | ENSG00000215915.5              A
##   1     chr1    941539      * | ENSG00000215915.5              C
##   1     chr1   1357992      * | ENSG00000215915.5              C
##                 ALT     chisq permScore_1 permScore_2 permScore_3 permScore_4
##     <CharacterList> <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>   <numeric>
##   1               G   6.01991   0.1080638 0.000327623   0.0865779   0.0043722
##   1               T   6.41084   0.0936188 0.007244507   0.0756189   0.3935886
##   1               T   6.10357   1.3783709 0.184207535   0.6716683   3.3793913
##     permScore_5 permScore_6         snp       MAF           probeid   mindist
##       <numeric>   <numeric> <character> <numeric>       <character> <numeric>
##   1   0.0766232   0.3580752   rs2799056 0.4146067 ENSG00000215915.5    445064
##   1   0.0731399   0.3412637   rs9778087 0.4191011 ENSG00000215915.5    443530
##   1   1.3557961   0.0174709   rs3737716 0.0651685 ENSG00000215915.5     27077
##        estFDR           gene_id gene_status      gene_type   gene_name
##     <numeric>       <character> <character>    <character> <character>
##   1 0.0488083 ENSG00000215915.5       KNOWN protein_coding      ATAD3C
##   1 0.0314624 ENSG00000215915.5       KNOWN protein_coding      ATAD3C
##   1 0.0445583 ENSG00000215915.5       KNOWN protein_coding      ATAD3C
##       LOCATION  LOCSTART    LOCEND   QUERYID        TXID         CDSID
##       <factor> <integer> <integer> <integer> <character> <IntegerList>
##   1 intergenic      <NA>      <NA>         1        <NA>              
##   1 intergenic      <NA>      <NA>         2        <NA>              
##   1 promoter        <NA>      <NA>         3        4185              
##          GENEID
##     <character>
##   1        <NA>
##   1        <NA>
##   1      441869
##   -------
##   seqinfo: 25 sequences from hg19 genome

The resulting table is SNP:transcript specific, and will likely need further processing.

Statistical modeling of phenorelevance of variant contexts, based on a cis-eQTL store

The following tasks need to be addressed in the modeling of phenorelevance

Visiting variants and updating with the relevant context and outcomes

We will make a temporary reconstruction of geuvStore2 contents with the enhanced information.

Support for trans-eQTL identification

The workhorse function is AllAssoc. The interface is

args(AllAssoc)
## function (summex, vcf.tf, variantRange, rhs = ~1, nperm = 3, 
##     genome = "hg19", assayind = 1, lbmaf = 1e-06, lbgtf = 1e-06, 
##     dropUnivHet = TRUE, infoFields = c("LDAF", "SVTYPE")) 
## NULL

This differs from cisAssoc through the addition of a variantRange argument.

The basic operation will be as follows. For a given RangedSummarizedExperiment instance summex, all features will be tested for association with all SNP in the variantRange restriction of the VCF identified in vcf.tf. The basic iteration strategy is

  1. tile the genome to obtain chunks of SNPs

  2. decompose the SE into chunks of transcriptome (or other ’ome)

  3. for each chunk of SNPs, for each chunk of transcriptome, seek associations and retain the top K in a buffering structure

Management of this buffering structure needs work.

require(GenomeInfoDb)
require(geuvPack)
require(Rsamtools)
data(geuFPKM)  # get a ranged summarized expt
lgeu = geuFPKM[ which(seqnames(geuFPKM)=="chr20"), ] # limit to chr20
seqlevelsStyle(lgeu) = "NCBI"
tf20 = TabixFile(system.file("vcf/c20exch.vcf.gz", package="gQTLstats"))
if (require(VariantAnnotation)) scanVcfHeader(tf20)
## class: VCFHeader 
## samples(1092): HG00096 HG00097 ... NA20826 NA20828
## meta(2): fileformat reference
## fixed(2): FILTER ALT
## info(22): LDAF AVGPOST ... VT SNPSOURCE
## geno(3): GT DS GL
set.seed(1234)
mysr = GRanges("20", IRanges(33.099e6, 33.52e6))
lita = AllAssoc(geuFPKM[1:10,], tf20, mysr)
## 
## Attaching package: 'Matrix'
## The following object is masked from 'package:VariantAnnotation':
## 
##     expand
## The following object is masked from 'package:S4Vectors':
## 
##     expand
## Warning in .local(x, ...): non-diploid variants are set to NA
## checking for universal heterozygous loci for exclusion (as dropUnivHet == TRUE) ...
## done checking.
## Warning in col.summary(gtdata[[1]]): 238 rows were empty - ignored when
## calculating call rates

## Warning in col.summary(gtdata[[1]]): non-diploid variants are set to NA
## Warning in col.summary(gtdata$genotypes): 238 rows were empty - ignored when
## calculating call rates
names(mcols(lita))
##  [1] "paramRangeID"                   "REF"                           
##  [3] "ALT"                            "ENSG00000152931.6_obs"         
##  [5] "ENSG00000183696.9_obs"          "ENSG00000139269.2_obs"         
##  [7] "ENSG00000169129.8_obs"          "ENSG00000134602.11_obs"        
##  [9] "ENSG00000136237.12_obs"         "ENSG00000259425.1_obs"         
## [11] "ENSG00000242284.2_obs"          "ENSG00000235027.1_obs"         
## [13] "ENSG00000228169.3_obs"          "ENSG00000152931.6_permScore_1" 
## [15] "ENSG00000183696.9_permScore_1"  "ENSG00000139269.2_permScore_1" 
## [17] "ENSG00000169129.8_permScore_1"  "ENSG00000134602.11_permScore_1"
## [19] "ENSG00000136237.12_permScore_1" "ENSG00000259425.1_permScore_1" 
## [21] "ENSG00000242284.2_permScore_1"  "ENSG00000235027.1_permScore_1" 
## [23] "ENSG00000228169.3_permScore_1"  "ENSG00000152931.6_permScore_2" 
## [25] "ENSG00000183696.9_permScore_2"  "ENSG00000139269.2_permScore_2" 
## [27] "ENSG00000169129.8_permScore_2"  "ENSG00000134602.11_permScore_2"
## [29] "ENSG00000136237.12_permScore_2" "ENSG00000259425.1_permScore_2" 
## [31] "ENSG00000242284.2_permScore_2"  "ENSG00000235027.1_permScore_2" 
## [33] "ENSG00000228169.3_permScore_2"  "ENSG00000152931.6_permScore_3" 
## [35] "ENSG00000183696.9_permScore_3"  "ENSG00000139269.2_permScore_3" 
## [37] "ENSG00000169129.8_permScore_3"  "ENSG00000134602.11_permScore_3"
## [39] "ENSG00000136237.12_permScore_3" "ENSG00000259425.1_permScore_3" 
## [41] "ENSG00000242284.2_permScore_3"  "ENSG00000235027.1_permScore_3" 
## [43] "ENSG00000228169.3_permScore_3"  "snp"                           
## [45] "MAF"                            "z.HWE"                         
## [47] "probeid"

The trans search for this segment of chr20 proceeds by obtaining additional association scores for additional genes.

litb = AllAssoc(geuFPKM[11:20,], tf20, mysr)
## Warning in .local(x, ...): non-diploid variants are set to NA
## checking for universal heterozygous loci for exclusion (as dropUnivHet == TRUE) ...
## done checking.
## Warning in col.summary(gtdata[[1]]): 238 rows were empty - ignored when
## calculating call rates

## Warning in col.summary(gtdata[[1]]): non-diploid variants are set to NA
## Warning in col.summary(gtdata$genotypes): 238 rows were empty - ignored when
## calculating call rates
litc = AllAssoc(geuFPKM[21:30,], tf20, mysr)
## Warning in .local(x, ...): non-diploid variants are set to NA
## checking for universal heterozygous loci for exclusion (as dropUnivHet == TRUE) ...
## done checking.
## Warning in col.summary(gtdata[[1]]): 238 rows were empty - ignored when
## calculating call rates
## Warning in .local(x, ...): non-diploid variants are set to NA
## Warning in col.summary(gtdata$genotypes): 238 rows were empty - ignored when
## calculating call rates

Now we want to reduce this information by collecting the strongest associations over the 30 genes tested.

buf = gQTLstats:::collapseToBuf(lita, litb, frag="_obs")
buf
## GRanges object with 504 ranges and 7 metadata columns:
##             seqnames    ranges strand |            REF             ALT
##                <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> | <DNAStringSet> <CharacterList>
##   rs6120668       20  33099793      * |              A               G
##   rs6059887       20  33101102      * |              C               G
##   rs6059890       20  33101653      * |              G               C
##   rs6088514       20  33102835      * |              A               G
##   rs6058070       20  33103521      * |              G               C
##         ...      ...       ...    ... .            ...             ...
##   rs4911451       20  33512466      * |              T               G
##   rs6088650       20  33514465      * |              T               C
##    rs725521       20  33516071      * |              T               C
##   rs1801310       20  33517014      * |              A               G
##   rs6087651       20  33518353      * |              C               T
##                     snp       MAF     z.HWE                    scorebuf
##             <character> <numeric> <numeric>                    <matrix>
##   rs6120668   rs6120668 0.4371585 -1.209946 2.89733:2.40489:2.29748:...
##   rs6059887   rs6059887 0.4371585 -1.209946 2.89733:2.40489:2.29748:...
##   rs6059890   rs6059890 0.4371585 -1.209946 2.89733:2.40489:2.29748:...
##   rs6088514   rs6088514 0.0655738 -0.257106 3.31124:3.02917:2.96208:...
##   rs6058070   rs6058070 0.4344262 -1.342787 3.12023:2.43881:2.36666:...
##         ...         ...       ...       ...                         ...
##   rs4911451   rs4911451  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##   rs6088650   rs6088650  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##    rs725521    rs725521  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##   rs1801310   rs1801310  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##   rs6087651   rs6087651  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##                                                                elnames
##                                                               <matrix>
##   rs6120668  ENSG00000242284.2:ENSG00000259425.1:ENSG00000247157.2:...
##   rs6059887  ENSG00000242284.2:ENSG00000259425.1:ENSG00000247157.2:...
##   rs6059890  ENSG00000242284.2:ENSG00000259425.1:ENSG00000247157.2:...
##   rs6088514 ENSG00000247157.2:ENSG00000183696.9:ENSG00000136237.12:...
##   rs6058070  ENSG00000242284.2:ENSG00000205981.2:ENSG00000247157.2:...
##         ...                                                        ...
##   rs4911451  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs6088650  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##    rs725521  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs1801310  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs6087651  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   -------
##   seqinfo: 1 sequence from hg19 genome; no seqlengths
buf = gQTLstats:::collapseToBuf(buf, litc, frag="_obs")
buf
## GRanges object with 504 ranges and 7 metadata columns:
##             seqnames    ranges strand |            REF             ALT
##                <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> | <DNAStringSet> <CharacterList>
##   rs6120668       20  33099793      * |              A               G
##   rs6059887       20  33101102      * |              C               G
##   rs6059890       20  33101653      * |              G               C
##   rs6088514       20  33102835      * |              A               G
##   rs6058070       20  33103521      * |              G               C
##         ...      ...       ...    ... .            ...             ...
##   rs4911451       20  33512466      * |              T               G
##   rs6088650       20  33514465      * |              T               C
##    rs725521       20  33516071      * |              T               C
##   rs1801310       20  33517014      * |              A               G
##   rs6087651       20  33518353      * |              C               T
##                     snp       MAF     z.HWE                    scorebuf
##             <character> <numeric> <numeric>                    <matrix>
##   rs6120668   rs6120668 0.4371585 -1.209946 2.91722:2.89733:2.40489:...
##   rs6059887   rs6059887 0.4371585 -1.209946 2.91722:2.89733:2.40489:...
##   rs6059890   rs6059890 0.4371585 -1.209946 2.91722:2.89733:2.40489:...
##   rs6088514   rs6088514 0.0655738 -0.257106 3.57588:3.31124:3.02917:...
##   rs6058070   rs6058070 0.4344262 -1.342787 3.12023:2.43881:2.36666:...
##         ...         ...       ...       ...                         ...
##   rs4911451   rs4911451  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##   rs6088650   rs6088650  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##    rs725521    rs725521  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##   rs1801310   rs1801310  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##   rs6087651   rs6087651  0.407104  0.100832  6.54073:4.0809:3.05186:...
##                                                                elnames
##                                                               <matrix>
##   rs6120668  ENSG00000198632.7:ENSG00000242284.2:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs6059887  ENSG00000198632.7:ENSG00000242284.2:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs6059890  ENSG00000198632.7:ENSG00000242284.2:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs6088514 ENSG00000017260.13:ENSG00000247157.2:ENSG00000183696.9:...
##   rs6058070  ENSG00000242284.2:ENSG00000205981.2:ENSG00000247157.2:...
##         ...                                                        ...
##   rs4911451  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs6088650  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##    rs725521  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs1801310  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   rs6087651  ENSG00000152931.6:ENSG00000158482.8:ENSG00000259425.1:...
##   -------
##   seqinfo: 1 sequence from hg19 genome; no seqlengths

Let’s do the same buffering process for the first permutation.

pbuf = gQTLstats:::collapseToBuf(lita, litb, frag="_permScore_1")
pbuf = gQTLstats:::collapseToBuf(pbuf, litc, frag="_permScore_1")
pbuf
## GRanges object with 504 ranges and 7 metadata columns:
##             seqnames    ranges strand |            REF             ALT
##                <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> | <DNAStringSet> <CharacterList>
##   rs6120668       20  33099793      * |              A               G
##   rs6059887       20  33101102      * |              C               G
##   rs6059890       20  33101653      * |              G               C
##   rs6088514       20  33102835      * |              A               G
##   rs6058070       20  33103521      * |              G               C
##         ...      ...       ...    ... .            ...             ...
##   rs4911451       20  33512466      * |              T               G
##   rs6088650       20  33514465      * |              T               C
##    rs725521       20  33516071      * |              T               C
##   rs1801310       20  33517014      * |              A               G
##   rs6087651       20  33518353      * |              C               T
##                     snp       MAF     z.HWE                    scorebuf
##             <character> <numeric> <numeric>                    <matrix>
##   rs6120668   rs6120668 0.4371585 -1.209946 4.59945:4.06076:3.83062:...
##   rs6059887   rs6059887 0.4371585 -1.209946 4.59945:4.06076:3.83062:...
##   rs6059890   rs6059890 0.4371585 -1.209946 4.59945:4.06076:3.83062:...
##   rs6088514   rs6088514 0.0655738 -0.257106 2.50149:2.39476:2.03576:...
##   rs6058070   rs6058070 0.4344262 -1.342787 4.72893:3.96870:3.87404:...
##         ...         ...       ...       ...                         ...
##   rs4911451   rs4911451  0.407104  0.100832 2.78448:2.65189:2.26759:...
##   rs6088650   rs6088650  0.407104  0.100832 2.78448:2.65189:2.26759:...
##    rs725521    rs725521  0.407104  0.100832 2.78448:2.65189:2.26759:...
##   rs1801310   rs1801310  0.407104  0.100832 2.78448:2.65189:2.26759:...
##   rs6087651   rs6087651  0.407104  0.100832 2.78448:2.65189:2.26759:...
##                                                               elnames
##                                                              <matrix>
##   rs6120668 ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000257773.1:ENSG00000249263.2:...
##   rs6059887 ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000257773.1:ENSG00000249263.2:...
##   rs6059890 ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000257773.1:ENSG00000249263.2:...
##   rs6088514 ENSG00000147164.6:ENSG00000205981.2:ENSG00000228169.3:...
##   rs6058070 ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000249263.2:ENSG00000257773.1:...
##         ...                                                       ...
##   rs4911451 ENSG00000163207.5:ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000183696.9:...
##   rs6088650 ENSG00000163207.5:ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000183696.9:...
##    rs725521 ENSG00000163207.5:ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000183696.9:...
##   rs1801310 ENSG00000163207.5:ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000183696.9:...
##   rs6087651 ENSG00000163207.5:ENSG00000235027.1:ENSG00000183696.9:...
##   -------
##   seqinfo: 1 sequence from hg19 genome; no seqlengths

We can compare the distributions of maximal association per SNP as observed or under permutation.

plot(density(buf$scorebuf[,1]))
lines(density(pbuf$scorebuf[,1]), lty=2)