Source: https://github.com/markziemann/miR-enrichment

Introduction

The predicted targets of microRNAs are used in functional enrichment analysis to justify the potential function of microRNAs, but there are some logical problems with this. In a biological tissue, not all of these targets will be expressed. Also the enrichment analysis requires a background list which is all the genes that can be measured. Not all genes are expressed in a tissue, at least half are silenced, so each enrichment analysis requires a custom background gene list. Unfortunately a custom background list is rarely used. We argue that this causes a dramatic distortion to the results.

Sample sheet

GSE184740

Control mRNA: SRR16048106, SRR16048107

Case mRNA: SRR16048108, SRR16048109

Methods

suppressPackageStartupMessages({
    library("DESeq2")
    library("gplots")
    library("mitch")
    library("eulerr")
    library("getDEE2")
    library("kableExtra")
})

Import read counts

Importing RNA-seq data

myfiles <- list.files(".",pattern="ke.tsv",recursive=TRUE)

x <- lapply(myfiles,function(x) {
  xx <- read.table(x,header=TRUE,row.names=1)
  xx[,3,drop=FALSE]
})

x <-  do.call(cbind,x)
colnames(x) <- gsub("_est_counts","",colnames(x))

Need gene symbols to map to the transcripts.

mdat <- getDEE2Metadata("hsapiens")
d <- getDEE2(species="hsapiens",SRRvec="SRR11509477",mdat,outfile="NULL",counts="GeneCounts",legacy=TRUE)
## For more information about DEE2 QC metrics, visit
##     https://github.com/markziemann/dee2/blob/master/qc/qc_metrics.md
head(d$TxInfo)
##                              GeneID GeneSymbol TxLength
## ENST00000434970.2 ENSG00000237235.2      TRDD2        9
## ENST00000448914.1 ENSG00000228985.1      TRDD3       13
## ENST00000415118.1 ENSG00000223997.1      TRDD1        8
## ENST00000631435.1 ENSG00000282253.1 AC239618.6       12
## ENST00000632684.1 ENSG00000282431.1 AC245427.8       12
## ENST00000454908.1 ENSG00000236170.1    IGHD1-1       17
txinfo <- d$TxInfo

Merge txinfo.

xm <- merge(x,txinfo,by=0)
xm$GeneID_symbol <- paste(xm$GeneID,xm$GeneSymbol)
xm$Row.names = xm$GeneID = xm$GeneSymbol = xm$TxLength = NULL
xa <- aggregate(. ~ GeneID_symbol,xm,sum)
rownames(xa) <- xa[,1]
xa[,1] = NULL

Differential expression

xaf <- xa[which(rowMeans(xa)>=10),]
dim(xa) ; dim(xaf)
## [1] 39297     4
## [1] 15326     4
ss <- data.frame("run"=colnames(xaf),"trt"=c(0,0,1,1))
rownames(ss) <- ss$run

mds <- cmdscale(dist(t(xaf)))
plot(mds,cex=2,col="gray",pch=19)
text(mds, labels=rownames(mds) ,col="black")

colSums(xaf)
## SRR16048106 SRR16048107 SRR16048108 SRR16048109 
##    19257367    19348751    20302193    20228203
dds <- DESeqDataSetFromMatrix(countData = round(xaf) , colData = ss , design = ~ trt )
## converting counts to integer mode
##   the design formula contains one or more numeric variables with integer values,
##   specifying a model with increasing fold change for higher values.
##   did you mean for this to be a factor? if so, first convert
##   this variable to a factor using the factor() function
res <- DESeq(dds)
## estimating size factors
## estimating dispersions
## gene-wise dispersion estimates
## mean-dispersion relationship
## final dispersion estimates
## fitting model and testing
z <- results(res)
vsd <- vst(dds, blind=FALSE)
zz <- cbind(as.data.frame(z),assay(vsd))
dge <- as.data.frame(zz[order(zz$pvalue),])
head(dge)
##                            baseMean log2FoldChange      lfcSE      stat pvalue
## ENSG00000070669.16 ASNS    4795.360      -2.050480 0.05359536 -38.25855      0
## ENSG00000070756.15 PABPC1 39840.568      -2.439380 0.03653619 -66.76612      0
## ENSG00000106211.8 HSPB1   22733.400       1.572793 0.03777981  41.63051      0
## ENSG00000120885.21 CLU     3279.541       3.218150 0.07058171  45.59467      0
## ENSG00000166451.13 CENPN   2603.047      -2.905267 0.07732672 -37.57133      0
## ENSG00000167034.9 NKX3-1  12394.428      -1.687265 0.04243919 -39.75724      0
##                           padj SRR16048106 SRR16048107 SRR16048108 SRR16048109
## ENSG00000070669.16 ASNS      0    13.54200    13.54378    12.43442    12.44196
## ENSG00000070756.15 PABPC1    0    16.10572    16.15985    14.03180    14.03084
## ENSG00000106211.8 HSPB1      0    13.94189    13.94580    15.25743    15.21122
## ENSG00000120885.21 CLU       0    11.94203    11.92374    13.28271    13.30588
## ENSG00000166451.13 CENPN     0    13.07943    13.06993    11.89978    11.93865
## ENSG00000167034.9 NKX3-1     0    14.50601    14.51592    13.30617    13.26723
ups <- rownames(subset(dge,padj<0.05 & log2FoldChange>0))
dns <- rownames(subset(dge,padj<0.05 & log2FoldChange<0))
lapply(list("UPs"=ups,"DNs"=dns),length)
## $UPs
## [1] 3004
## 
## $DNs
## [1] 2984
nrow(dge)
## [1] 15326
saveRDS(dge,file="GSE184740.Rds")

Session information

For reproducibility.

sessionInfo()
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