rlog, lfcShrink and vst on gene subset
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@giuliapasquesi-15143
Last seen 6.5 years ago

I am analyzing a dataset that includes both gene and transposable element raw counts. 
I am only interested in analyzing the differential expression of TEs, but still need to create and normalize the entire dataset. For the DE analysis itself it is not a major problem, because I can retrieve the results and filter out the genes. However, I was interested in plotting the variance-stabilized transformation of the data (or the rlog) and the PCA for the TEs only, ignoring the genes.
Is there a way to do this directly in DeSeq2?
I was thinking of providing an additional feature data column specifying "gene" or "TE", but then I don't know if it  is possible post-normalization to use only the "TE" subset to make transformations and lfcShrink.

Thank you so much 

Giulia

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Have you tried simply row-subsetting the DESeqDataSet before calling the model fitting functions?

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@mikelove
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If you want to plot for example, the PCA for just some samples, you can provide a subsetted DESeqTransform object to plotPCA:

plotPCA(vsd[idx,])
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I did't know about the [idx] flag but isn't it gonna specify the samples I want to include? I would like to plot the variances for only a subset of genes (therefore by rows and not by column in a matrix. Provided the normalization was based on all genes, otherwise the library size would be incorrect and bring to a weird normalization) for all samples.

I apologize if I wasn't clear the first time.

 

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The way indexing works in R is, if you use [ ... , ... ], the first element indexes rows (here, genes) and the second element indexes columns (samples). If you leave out an element, it provides all. So [idx,] gives a subset of the rows and all of the columns.

See here:

http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/SummarizedExperiment/inst/doc/SummarizedExperiment.html#anatomy-of-a-summarizedexperiment

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Thank you so much for the clarification. 
It is exactly what I was looking for!

 

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