[BioC] GOstat: listing genes from hyperGTest

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at med.umich.edu
Wed Oct 22 19:40:01 CEST 2008


Hi Tim,

Yeah, probeSetSummary() is probably not what you want, if you are not 
starting with an Affy chip. There are some gymnastics required to map 
things back to the original Affy chip that you won't need to do. In 
addition, if you are not using a conditional hypergeometric analysis, it 
should be pretty simple to get what you want without even needing to 
parse things out of the GOHyperGResult object. An example:

## fake up some data

 > geneIds <- Lkeys(org.Hs.egGO)[sample(1:5000, 500)]
 > univ <- Lkeys(org.Hs.egGO)
 > param <- new("GOHyperGParams", geneIds = geneIds, 
universeGeneIds=univ, annotation="org.Hs.eg.db", ontology="BP")
 > hyp <- hyperGTest(param)
 > summary(hyp, categorySize=10)
       GOBPID      Pvalue OddsRatio   ExpCount Count Size 
   Term
1 GO:0007338 0.002723500  29.25101 0.07808304     2   54 single 
fertilization
2 GO:0009566 0.002925855  28.16374 0.08097501     2   56 
fertilization

So we have two terms of interest. Getting the Entrez Gene IDs from the 
input set that map to these terms is easy:

 > geneIds[geneIds %in% get("GO:0007338", revmap(org.Hs.egGO))]
[1] "100131137" "10007"

Now you might also want to know which 54 Entrez Gene IDs map to that 
particular GO term. Since you are not conditioning, this includes that 
particular GO term and all its offspring.

 > offspring <- get("GO:0007338", GOBPOFFSPRING)
 > egids <- unique(unlist(mget(c("GO:0007338", offspring), 
revmap(org.Hs.egGO), ifnotfound=NA), use.names=FALSE))
 > egids[!is.na(egids)]
  [1] "1047"      "4179"      "4240"      "4486"      "4809"      "5016" 

  [7] "6674"      "7783"      "7784"      "7802"      "7993"      "8747" 

[13] "8748"      "8852"      "9082"      "10007"     "10361"     "22917"
[19] "26476"     "53340"     "57055"     "57829"     "64100"     "93185"
[25] "158062"    "442868"    "100131137" "49"        "410"       "2683"
[31] "3010"      "4184"      "6677"      "7142"      "7455"      "8857"
[37] "11055"     "124626"    "2054"      "2741"      "10343"     "10566"
[43] "27297"     "152015"    "3074"      "167"       "928"       "2515"
[49] "5104"      "23553"     "284359"    "164684"    "7141"      "79400"

Best,

Jim


Tim Smith wrote:
> Thanks James. If I can tweak that function, I'll get exactly what I want. 
> 
> I tried what you suggested and got the following error:
> 
> ---------------------------
>  ### 'genes1' are the Entrez IDs of my genes of interest, and 'allGenes' is the universe of Entrez IDs 
>  
>   paramsGO <- new("GOHyperGParams", geneIds = genes1,
>            universeGeneIds = allGenes, annotation = "org.Hs.eg.db", 
>            ontology = "BP", pvalueCutoff = 1, conditional = FALSE, 
>            testDirection = "over")
>  
>  GO <- hyperGTest(paramsGO)
>  ps <- probeSetSummary(GO)
> 
> Error in get(mapName, envir = pkgEnv, inherits = FALSE) : 
>   variable "org.Hs.egENTREZID" was not found
> --------------------------------
> 
> I guess the function would return the probe ids if I was using them, but I have Entrez IDs as input.
> 
> Or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: James W. MacDonald <jmacdon at med.umich.edu>
> 
> Cc: bioc <bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [BioC] GOstat: listing genes from hyperGTest
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Does probeSetSummary() do what you want?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Smith wrote:
>>  
>> Hi,
>>
>> I
>> was performing a hyperGTest for genes in homo-sapiens. For a set of
>> input genes, this function returns some 'significant' GO terms. What I
>> wanted to now do was to co-relate each significant GO term (returned by
>> this function) with genes (from my set of input genes) associated with
>> that GO term. However, I think that I may be using the wrong
>> package/function to get the releveant set of genes.
>>
>> Currently, what I'm doing is finding the significant GO terms by using the following code:
>>
>> -----------------------
>> ### 'genes1' are the Entrez IDs of my genes of interest, and 'allGenes' is the universe of Entrez IDs 
>>
>>  paramsGO <- new("GOHyperGParams", geneIds = genes1,
>>           universeGeneIds = allGenes, annotation = "org.Hs.eg.db", 
>>           ontology = "BP", pvalueCutoff = 1, conditional = FALSE, 
>>           testDirection = "over")
>>
>> GO <- hyperGTest(paramsGO)
>> --------------------------
>> This
>> gives me a set of significant GO terms. Now, I would like to find which
>> subset of genes in 'genes1' is associated with each of the significant
>> GO term. To do this I map all GO terms to their Entrez IDs using the
>> 'org.Hs.eg.db' package using the following:
>>
>> xx <- as.list(org.Hs.egGO2EG)
>>
>> to
>> get a mapping of GO terms to Entrez IDs. I get 6,756 GO terms (isn't
>> this number small?) that map to at least one Entrez ID. So, from here I
>> look up which Entrez IDs are associated with my GO term of interest.
>>
>> My
>> problem is that often, the GO term from hyperGTest is not associated
>> with any Entrez ID (using xx <- as.list(org.Hs.egGO2EG) described
>> above ), i.e. the GO term/ID is not in the list obtained from
>> 'org.Hs.egGO2EG'). For example, the term 'GO:0043284' is thrown up by
>> hyperGTest, but does not appear to be associated with any Entrez IDs in
>> the org.Hs.eg.db package. Where could I be going wrong?
>>
> [[elided Yahoo spam]]
>> Thanks for any comments/suggestions. I realize that I'm probably doing something really stupid here....
>>
>> My sessionInfo() is:
>> --------------------------------
>> R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25) 
>> i386-pc-mingw32 
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>>  [1] grid      splines   tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base    
>>
>> other attached packages:
>>  [1]
>> gplots_2.6.0         gmodels_2.14.1       gtools_2.4.0        
>> gdata_2.4.1          Rgraphviz_1.18.1     GOstats_2.6.0      
>> Category_2.6.0      
>>  [8] RBGL_1.16.0          annotate_1.18.0    
>> xtable_1.5-2         graph_1.18.0         PFAM.db_2.2.0      
>> GO.db_2.2.0          KEGG.db_2.2.0      
>> [15] org.Hs.eg.db_2.2.0   AnnotationDbi_1.2.0  RSQLite_0.6-8        DBI_0.2-4            genefilter_1.20.0    survival_2.34-1      affy_1.18.0        
>> [22] preprocessCore_1.2.0 affyio_1.8.0         Biobase_2.0.0      
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] cluster_1.11.11 MASS_7.2-44    
>>
>>
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