Instalation

if (!require("BiocManager")) {
    install.packages("BiocManager")
}
BiocManager::install("glmSparseNet")

Required Packages

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(survival)
library(futile.logger)
library(curatedTCGAData)
library(TCGAutils)
library(MultiAssayExperiment)
#
library(glmSparseNet)
#
# Some general options for futile.logger the debugging package
flog.layout(layout.format("[~l] ~m"))
options(
    "glmSparseNet.show_message" = FALSE,
    "glmSparseNet.base_dir" = withr::local_tempdir()
)
# Setting ggplot2 default theme as minimal
theme_set(ggplot2::theme_minimal())

Load data

The data is loaded from an online curated dataset downloaded from TCGA using curatedTCGAData bioconductor package and processed.

To accelerate the process we use a very reduced dataset down to around 100 variables only (genes), which is stored as a data object in this package. However, the procedure to obtain the data manually is described in the following chunk.

prad <- curatedTCGAData(
    diseaseCode = "PRAD", assays = "RNASeq2GeneNorm",
    version = "1.1.38", dry.run = FALSE
)

Build the survival data from the clinical columns.

• Selects only primary solid tumour samples
• Merge survival times for patients, which have different columns in case they are alive or dead.
• Build two matrix objects that fit the data xdata and ydata

# keep only solid tumour (code: 01)
pradPrimarySolidTumor <- TCGAutils::TCGAsplitAssays(prad, "01")
xdataRaw <- t(assay(pradPrimarySolidTumor[[1]]))

# Get survival information
ydataRaw <- colData(pradPrimarySolidTumor) |>
    as.data.frame() |>
    # Find max time between all days (ignoring missings)
    dplyr::rowwise() |>
    dplyr::mutate(
        time = max(days_to_last_followup, days_to_death, na.rm = TRUE)
    ) |>
    # Keep only survival variables and codes
    dplyr::select(patientID, status = vital_status, time) |>
    # Discard individuals with survival time less or equal to 0
    dplyr::filter(!is.na(time) & time > 0) |>
    as.data.frame()

# Set index as the patientID
rownames(ydataRaw) <- ydataRaw$patientID

# keep only features that have standard deviation > 0
xdataRaw <- xdataRaw[
    TCGAbarcode(rownames(xdataRaw)) %in% rownames(ydataRaw),
]
xdataRaw <- xdataRaw[, apply(xdataRaw, 2, sd) != 0] |>
    scale()

# Order ydata the same as assay
ydataRaw <- ydataRaw[TCGAbarcode(rownames(xdataRaw)), ]

set.seed(params$seed)
smallSubset <- c(
    geneNames(c(
        "ENSG00000103091", "ENSG00000064787",
        "ENSG00000119915", "ENSG00000120158",
        "ENSG00000114491", "ENSG00000204176",
        "ENSG00000138399"
    ))$external_gene_name,
    sample(colnames(xdataRaw), 100)
) |>
    unique() |>
    sort()

xdata <- xdataRaw[, smallSubset[smallSubset %in% colnames(xdataRaw)]]
ydata <- ydataRaw |> dplyr::select(time, status)

Fit models

Fit model model penalizing by the hubs using the cross-validation function by cv.glmHub.

set.seed(params$seed)
fitted <- cv.glmHub(xdata, Surv(ydata$time, ydata$status),
    family = "cox",
    nlambda = 1000,
    network = "correlation",
    options = networkOptions(
        cutoff = .6,
        minDegree = .2
    )
)

Results of Cross Validation

Shows the results of 100 different parameters used to find the optimal value in 10-fold cross-validation. The two vertical dotted lines represent the best model and a model with less variables selected (genes), but within a standard error distance from the best.

plot(fitted)

coefsCV <- Filter(function(.x) .x != 0, coef(fitted, s = "lambda.min")[, 1])
data.frame(
    ensembl.id = names(coefsCV),
    gene.name = geneNames(names(coefsCV))$external_gene_name,
    coefficient = coefsCV,
    stringsAsFactors = FALSE
) |>
    arrange(gene.name) |>
    knitr::kable()

separate2GroupsCox(as.vector(coefsCV),
    xdata[, names(coefsCV)],
    ydata,
    plotTitle = "Full dataset", legendOutside = FALSE
)

## $pvalue
## [1] 0.001155155
## 
## $plot

## 
## $km
## Call: survfit(formula = survival::Surv(time, status) ~ group, data = prognosticIndexDf)
## 
##                 n events median 0.95LCL 0.95UCL
## Low risk - 1  249      0     NA      NA      NA
## High risk - 1 248     10   3502    3467      NA

Session Info

sessionInfo()

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