can I extract data for subset of cancer types from GSE62944
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@richa_makhijani-12957
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Hi, I am interested in extracting expression data for only three cancer types from GSE62944. I want tumor/normal integer based read counts for these cancers, from which I want to extract Differential expressed genes using LIMMA. Is it possible to do so? I am not able to understand which samples belong to which tumor types and how to extract them. Also, can it directly feed the feature counts data to LIMMA for differential expression?

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sina.nassiri ▴ 130
@sinanassiri-10062
Last seen 2.8 years ago
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Have you read the vignette? https://github.com/Bioconductor/GSE62944/blob/master/vignettes/GSE62944.Rmd

There is an example on subsetting data for Low Grade Glioma (LGG), which you can easily modify for other cancer types.

# metadata on cancer types
phenoData(tcga_data)$CancerType

# subset the expression Set to only samples from LGG for example
lgg_data <- tcga_data[, which(phenoData(tcga_data)$CancerType=="LGG")]

The example continues with differential expression analysis using DESeq2, but you can also use limma. Check the following workflow on using limma for RNASeq: 

source("http://bioconductor.org/workflows.R")
workflowInstall("RNAseq123")

Hope this helps!

 

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