ENmix (version 1.8.0)

QCinfo: QC information.

Description

Extract informations for data quanlity controls: detection P values, number of beads and averaged bisulfite conversion intensity. The function can also identify low quality samples and probes, as well as outlier samples based on total intensity or beta value distribution.

Usage

QCinfo(rgSet, detPthre=0.000001, nbthre=3, samplethre=0.05, CpGthre=0.05, bisulthre=NULL, outlier=TRUE, distplot=TRUE)

Arguments

rgSet

An object of class RGChannelSetExtended.

detPthre

Detection P value threshold to identify low quality data point

nbthre

Number of bead threshold to identify low quality data point

samplethre

Threshold to identify low quality samples, the percentage of low quality methylation data points across probes for each sample

CpGthre

Threshold to identify low quality probes, percentage of low quality methylation data points across samples for each probe

bisulthre

Threshold of bisulfite intensity for identification of low quality samples. By default, Mean - 3 x SD of sample bisufite control intensities will be used as the threshold.

outlier

If TRUE, outlier samples in total intensity or beta value distribution will be idenfied and classified as bad samples.

distplot

TRUE or FALSE, whether to produce beta value distribution plots before and after QC.

Value

detP: a matrix of detection P valuesnbead: a matrix for number of beadsbisul: a vector of averaged intensities for bisulfite conversion controlsbadsample: a list of low quality or outlier samplesbadCpG: a list of low quality CpGsoutlier_sample: a list of outlier samplesFigure "qc_sample.jpg": scatter plot for Percent of low quality data per sample and Average bisulfite conversion intensityFigure "qc_CpG.jpg": histogram for Percent of low quality data per CpG.Figure "freqpolygon_beta_beforeQC.jpg": distribution plot before filtering.Figure "freqpolygon_beta_afterQC.jpg": distribution plot after filtering.

References

Zongli Xu, Liang Niu, Leping Li and Jack A. Taylor, ENmix: a novel background correction method for Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip. Nucleic Acids Research 2015.

Examples

if(FALSE){
if (require(minfiData)) {
sheet <- read.450k.sheet(file.path(find.package("minfiData"),"extdata"), pattern = "csv$")
rgSet <- read.450k.exp(targets = sheet,extended = TRUE)
qcscore<-QCinfo(rgSet)
}}