the other 65 probes are SNP probes, not CpGs or CpHs


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Dale Watkins [guest] <
guest@bioconductor.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I have been using the IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe reference manual
> to find the nearest TSS and corresponding EntrezGene ID information for
> analysis of my 450k data, but I have a question.
>
> The distance to TSS file I have generated contains 485512 rows, but the
> 450k array covers 485577 CpGs - why is there a discrepancy? I used the code
> from the reference manual as follows:
>
> # find the nearest TSS and its corresponding EntrezGene ID
> library(GenomicFeatures)
> CpGs.unstranded = CpGs.450k
> strand(CpGs.unstranded) = "*"
> refgene.TxDb = makeTranscriptDbFromUCSC("refGene", genome="hg19")
> # nearest forward TSS
> TSS.forward = transcripts(refgene.TxDb,
>                           vals=list(tx_strand="+"),
>                           columns="gene_id")
> nearest.fwd = precede(CpGs.unstranded, TSS.forward)
> nearest.fwd.eg = nearest.fwd # to keep dimensions right
> notfound = which(is.na(nearest.fwd)) # track for later
> nearest.fwd.eg[-notfound] =
> as.character(elementMetadata(TSS.forward)$gene_id[nearest.fwd[-notfound]])
>
> TSSs.fwd = start(TSS.forward[nearest.fwd[-notfound]])
> distToTSS.fwd = nearest.fwd # to keep dimensions right
> distToTSS.fwd[-notfound] = start(CpGs.unstranded)[-notfound] - TSSs.fwd
> # note that these are NEGATIVE -- which is correct!
>
>
> # nearest reverse TSS
> TSS.reverse = transcripts(refgene.TxDb,
>                           vals=list(tx_strand="-"),
>                           columns="gene_id")
> nearest.rev = precede(CpGs.unstranded, TSS.reverse)
> nearest.rev.eg = nearest.rev # to keep dimensions right
> notfound = which(is.na(nearest.rev)) # track for later
> nearest.rev.eg[-notfound] =
> as.character(elementMetadata(TSS.reverse)$gene_id[nearest.rev[-notfound]])
>
> TSSs.rev = start(TSS.reverse[nearest.rev[-notfound]])
> distToTSS.rev = nearest.rev # to keep dimensions right
> distToTSS.rev[-notfound] = start(CpGs.unstranded)[-notfound] - TSSs.rev
> # now these are POSITIVE: we are walking up the opposite strand.
>
> # tabulate and link these together for the annotation package:
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$fwd.dist <- distToTSS.fwd
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$fwd.gene_id <- nearest.fwd.eg
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$rev.dist <- distToTSS.rev
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$rev.gene_id <- nearest.rev.eg
>
> FWD.CLOSER = with(IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe,
>                   union( which( abs(fwd.dist) < abs(rev.dist) ),
>                          which( is.na(rev.dist) ) ) )
> REV.CLOSER = with(IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe,
>                   union( which( abs(fwd.dist) > abs(rev.dist) ),
>                          which( is.na(fwd.dist) ) ) )
>
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$DISTTOTSS =
> pmin(abs(IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$fwd.dist),
> abs(IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$rev.dist))
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$ENTREZ = NA
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$ENTREZ[FWD.CLOSER] =
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$fwd.gene_id
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$ENTREZ[REV.CLOSER] =
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$rev.gene_id
>
>
> write.table(IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$DISTTOTSS, "DistToTSS.csv",
> sep=",")
> write.table(IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$ENTREZ, "ENTREZ.csv",
> sep=",")
> write.table(IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$ENTREZ[FWD.CLOSER],
> "Fwd.Closer.csv", sep=",")
> write.table(IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe$ENTREZ[REV.CLOSER],
> "Rev.Closer.csv", sep=",")
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>  -- output of sessionInfo():
>
> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
>  LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                       LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> base
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP.20110815_0.99.6
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450kprobe_2.0.6
>  [3] IlluminaHumanMethylation450kannotation.ilmn.v1.2_0.1.3
> IlluminaHumanMethylation450k.db_1.4.7
>  [5] org.Hs.eg.db_2.8.0                                     RSQLite_0.11.2
>  [7] DBI_0.2-5
>  IlluminaHumanMethylation450kmanifest_0.4.0
>  [9] BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19_1.3.19                     BSgenome_1.26.1
> [11] GEOquery_2.24.1
>  GenomicFeatures_1.10.2
> [13] AnnotationDbi_1.20.5                                   minfi_1.4.0
> [15] Biostrings_2.26.3
>  GenomicRanges_1.10.7
> [17] IRanges_1.16.6                                         reshape_0.8.4
> [19] plyr_1.8                                               lattice_0.20-13
> [21] Biobase_2.18.0
> BiocGenerics_0.4.0
> [23] BiocInstaller_1.8.3
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] affyio_1.26.0         annotate_1.36.0       beanplot_1.1
>  biomaRt_2.14.0        bit_1.1-9
>  [6] bitops_1.0-5          codetools_0.2-8       crlmm_1.16.9
>  ellipse_0.3-7         ff_2.2-10
> [11] foreach_1.4.0         genefilter_1.40.0     grid_2.15.2
> iterators_1.0.6       limma_3.14.4
> [16] MASS_7.3-23           Matrix_1.0-11         matrixStats_0.6.2
> mclust_4.0            multtest_2.14.0
> [21] mvtnorm_0.9-9994      nor1mix_1.1-3         oligoClasses_1.20.0
> preprocessCore_1.20.0 R.methodsS3_1.4.2
> [26] RColorBrewer_1.0-5    RcppEigen_0.3.1.2.1   RCurl_1.95-3
>  Rsamtools_1.10.2      rtracklayer_1.18.2
> [31] siggenes_1.32.0       splines_2.15.2        stats4_2.15.2
> survival_2.36-14      tools_2.15.2
> [36] XML_3.95-0.1          xtable_1.7-1          zlibbioc_1.4.0
>
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