Differential analysis with RSEM normalized counts using limma without voom
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I have obtained TCGA gene expression RNAseq (polyA+ IlluminaHiSeq) Level 3 data. It has log2(x+1) transformed RSEM normalized counts.

For differential analysis I'm using "limma" package without voom. I came to know that these RSEM counts need to be normalized again with normalizeQuantiles.

So, I did that like following:

head(Rnadata)[1:4]

                             S1               S2                 S3                 S4
ARHGE          11.1818         11.2430         11.1612         12.0167         
HIF3A              5.2482          4.0013          2.9374          4.7857         
RNF17              4.1956          0.0000          0.0000          0.0000        
RNF10             11.5047         12.0791         12.5931       11.4616         
RNF11              9.5995          9.8248          9.9459         10.8368        
RNF13              9.6257         10.5608         10.5179         10.1428  

y <- normalizeQuantiles(Rnadata)

table(samples$type)

GP1n3   GP2 
  169      197

type2 <- factor(samples$type)

keep <- rowSums(y > log2(11)) >= 14
table(keep)

library("statmod")
y2 <- y[keep,]
design <- model.matrix(~type2)
fit <- lmFit(y2,design)
fit <- eBayes(fit)
tab <- topTable(fit,coef=2,adjust="BH")

This gave an output like following:

tab:

                          logFC     AveExpr         t                P.Value      adj.P.Val          B
LOC152225  0.5177649  1.502743  3.782393 0.0001813158 0.9688791 -0.9982513
COL23A1   -0.6022330  3.743789 -3.679663 0.0002685533 0.9688791 -1.2085234
AGBL4      0.5032687  1.163802  3.532754 0.0004637616 0.9688791 -1.5001656
MPP6       0.3445659  7.334771  3.320850 0.0009875751 0.9688791 -1.9018043
PARVB     -0.4983630  8.963399 -3.304377 0.0010456732 0.9688791 -1.9320752
GPX3      -0.5144697 13.830226 -3.292797 0.0010884016 0.9688791 -1.9532738
DKK3      -0.5604613  8.686580 -3.291027 0.0010950728 0.9688791 -1.9565075
C10orf116 -0.8018208  8.218658 -3.289999 0.0010989644 0.9688791 -1.9583847
ATOH8     -0.7274459  7.480381 -3.277855 0.0011459271 0.9688791 -1.9805237
MTF2       0.2071583  7.985538  3.265361 0.0011961812 0.9688791 -2.0032219

What I don't understand is why adj.P.Val is same for all the genes?  Did I do any mistake? Can anyone help me in this? Thank you

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@james-w-macdonald-5106
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The adj.P.Val ISN'T the same for all genes. It's just the same for the 10 genes you show there. This simply means that you don't have any evidence for differential expression. Also, you can figure out why there are only 10 rows by reading the help page for topTable.

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Yes I know that n=Inf gives all the genes. I wanted to give GP2-GP1n3 in contrast matrix. And How can I create contrast.matrix for the above data? 

With the above data when I see the results it gave the following.

results <- decideTests(fit)
summary(results)
   (Intercept) type2GP2
-1           0        1
0            0    16905
1        16906        0

This means GP2-GP1n3 has 1 downregulated gene and 16905 doesn't show any regulation, 0 upregulation. Am I right?

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The limma User's Guide covers all this in exquisite detail. Rather than asking questions that you could easily answer yourself, you should instead avail yourself of the available documentation.

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