package Genome::Model::Tools::Music::PathScan::PopulationPathScan; #__STANDARD PERL PACKAGES use strict; use warnings; use Carp; use Genome::Model::Tools::Music::PathScan::CombinePvals; use Genome::Model::Tools::Music::PathScan::PathScan; # DEBUG # print "USING LOCAL MCW VERSION OF POPULATION PATHSCAN\n"; # DEBUG # DEBUG -- PLEASE REMOVE # use lib "/home/mwendl/work/perl_modules"; # use PostData; ################################################################################ ## ## ## I N T R O D U C T O R Y P O D D O C U M E N T A T I O N ## ## ## ################################################################################ =head1 NAME PopulationPathScan - apply PathScan test to populations rather than just single individuals =head1 SYNOPSIS use PopulationPathScan; my $obj = PopulationPathScan->new ($ref_to_list_of_gene_lengths); $obj->assign ($number_of_compartments); $obj->preprocess ($background_mutation_rate); $pval = $obj->population_pval_approx ($ref_to_list_of_hits_per_sample); $pval = $obj->population_pval_exact ($ref_to_list_of_hits_per_sample); =head1 DESCRIPTION The C package is implemented strictly as a test of a set of genes, e.g. a pathway, for a I individual. Specifically, knowing the gene lengths in the pathway, the number of genes that have at least one mutation, and the estimated background mutation rate, one can test the null hypothesis that these observed mutations are well-explained simply by the mechanism of random background mutation. However, it will often be the case that data for a pathway will be available for many individuals, meaning that we now have many tests of the given (single) hypothesis. (This should not be confused with the scenario of multiple hypothesis testing.) The set of values contains much more information than a single value, suggesting that significance must be judged on the basis of the collective result. For example, while no single p-value by itself may exceed the chosen statistical threshold, the overall set of probabilities may still give the impression of significance. Properly combining such numbers is a necessary, but not entirely trivial task. This package basically serves as a high-level interface to first perform individual tests using the methods of C, and then to properly combine the resulting p-values using the methods of C. =head1 AUTHOR Michael C. Wendl S Copyright (C) 2009 Washington University This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. =head1 METHODS The available methods are listed below. =cut ################################################################################ ## ## ## P R O G R A M M E R N O T E S ## ## ## ################################################################################ # # The obj schematic resembles: # # $obj = { # # #__GENE LENGTHS IN THE POPULATION PATHSCAN TEST # gene_lengths => [474, 1038, 285, ...], # # #__THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF GENES IN TEST (SAVED FOR CONVENIENCE) # num_genes = 15, # # #__ARGUMENT LIST FOR PATHSCAN COMPUTATION (PathScan) STRUCTURE # IS DETERMINED BY THE WAY THE "assign" METHOD IS CALLED # path_scan_arg_list = [], # path_scan_arg_list = [ [], [], [] ], # # #__ASSIGN LEVEL (ESSENTIALLY THE ARGUMENT OF THE 'ASSIGN' METHOD) # assign_level = 1, # # #__CUMMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FOR THIS SET OF GENES ORDERED MOST EXTREME # TO LEAST EXTREME --- COULD BE EITHER THE "COMPLETE" CDF, I.E. THE ENTIRE # DISTRIBUTION # cdf = [0.003, 0.0234, 0.1001, 0.23, 0.4, 0.8, 0.9, 0.94, 0.97, 0.99, 1], # # #__OR COULD BE A TRUNCATED LIST WITH JUST ENOUGH VALUES TO DO A CALCULATION # I.E. WHERE THE MORE EXTREME TAILED PROBABILITY VALUES ARE OMITTED, BEING # REPLACED BY A SIMPLE PLACEHOLDER FLAG -1 # cdf = [-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 0.94, 0.97, 0.99, 1], # # #__MAXIMUM NUMBER OF MUTATED GENES TAKEN OVER ALL SAMPLES -- SEE PREPROCESS # max_hits = 5, # }; ################################################################################ ## ## ## P U B L I C M E T H O D S ## ## ## ################################################################################ # === # NEW create a new population path-scan object # === ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =head2 new The object constructor takes a mandatory, but otherwise un-ordered reference to a list of gene lengths comprising the biological group (e.g. a pathway) whose mutation significance is to be analyzed using the PathScan paradigm. my $obj = PopulationPathScan->new ([474, 1038, 285, ...]); The method checks to make sure that all elements are legitimate lengths, i.e. integers exceeding 3. =cut sub new { my $class = shift; my ($gene_lengths) = @_; #__OBJECT TEMPLATE my $self = {}; #__PROCESS GENE LENGTHS IF THEY'RE SPECIFIED if (defined $gene_lengths && $gene_lengths) { #__MAKE SURE THIS IS A LIST croak "argument must be list reference" unless ref $gene_lengths eq "ARRAY"; #__SAVE LIST $self->{'gene_lengths'} = $gene_lengths; $self->{'num_genes'} = scalar @{$gene_lengths}; #__VALIDATE THE INPUT foreach my $gene_length (@{$gene_lengths}) { #__MAKE SURE THIS IS A LEGITIMATE LENGTH croak "'$gene_length' is not a gene length" unless $gene_length =~ /^\d+$/ && $gene_length >= 3; } #__OTHERWISE CROAK } else { croak "must specify a list of gene lengths as an argument"; } #__BLESS INTO CLASS AND RETURN OBJECT bless $self, $class; return $self; } # ====== # ASSIGN assign the manner in which genes will be internally organized # ====== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =head2 assign This method assigns the manner in which genes will be internally organized for passing to the PathScan calculation component. The main consideration here is how the list may be compartmentalized for greater computational efficiency, though at some loss of accuracy, for the PathScan calculation. If the gene list is long, exact calculation is generally infeasible. The method takes a single argument representing the number of compartments (or sub-lists) the lengths will be divided into, e.g. 1 represents a single list, i.e. exact computation, 2 indicates two lists, 3 three lists, etc. $obj->assign (3); The values are then organized internally such that the smallest genes are grouped together, then the slightly larger ones, and so forth. Generally, 3 or 4 lists give reasonable balance between accuracy and computation (Wendl et al., in progress). =cut # THIS HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED YET # # The method can also be called without an argument # # $obj->assign; # # in which case the gene lengths will put into a number of # compartments such that each one has a maximum of 10 # values. sub assign { my $obj = shift; my ($assign_level) = @_; #__ORDER THE LIST OF VALIDATED GENE LENGTHS ACCORDING TO INCREASING SIZE @{$obj->{'gene_lengths'}} = sort _numerical_ @{$obj->{'gene_lengths'}}; sub _numerical_ {$a <=> $b} #__ASSIGN TO A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF COMPARTMENTS IF SPECIFIED if (defined $assign_level && $assign_level) { $obj->{'assign_level'} = $assign_level; #__QUICK-PROCESSING IF THERE'S NO COMPARTMENTALIZATION if ($assign_level == 1) { $obj->{'path_scan_arg_list'} = $obj->{'gene_lengths'}; return; } #__REMAINDER AFTER DIVIDING GENE LIST INTO AN INTEGER-NUMBER OF COMPARTMENTS my $remain = $obj->{'num_genes'} % $assign_level; #__LENGTH OF ALL COMPARTMENTS (EXCEPT LAST ONE IF THERE'S A REMAINDER) my $list_length = ($obj->{'num_genes'} - $remain) / $assign_level; #__BUILD-UP THE COMPARTMENTALIZED ARGUMENT LIST my ($list_number, $gene_number, $compartment) = (1, 1, []); foreach my $gene_length (@{$obj->{'gene_lengths'}}) { push @{$compartment}, $gene_length; $gene_number++; if ($gene_number > $list_length) { $list_number++; push @{$obj->{'path_scan_arg_list'}}, $compartment; ($gene_number, $compartment) = (1, []); $list_length += $remain if $list_number == $assign_level; } } #__ELSE ASSIGN SUCH THAT EACH COMPARTMENT HAS A MAXIMUM SIZE } else { croak "illegal assignment level"; } } # ========== # PREPROCESS set-up PathScan calculation and compute CDF # ========== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =head2 preprocess This method pre-processes the population-level calculation, specifically, it sets up and executes the PathScan module to obtain the CDF associated with the given gene set and background mutation rate. It takes the latter as an argument. $obj->preprocess (0.0000027); Executing this method will take various amounts of CPU time, depending upon the level of accuracy and the number of genes in the calculation. The method optionally takes the list of the number of mutated genes in the group for each sample as a second argument, if this information is known at this point $obj->preprocess (0.0000027, [4, 5, 7, 3, 0, ...]); and it is usually better to use this form because the internals will compute only a truncated CDF that is just sufficient to process this list, rather than computing the full CDF. Not only is speed improved, but this helps avoid overflow errors for large pathways. =cut sub preprocess { my $obj = shift; my ($mutation_prob, $list_of_hits) = @_; my $max_hits = 0; #__PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF ARGUMENT croak "need background mutation rate" unless $mutation_prob; croak "background mutation '$mutation_prob' rate must be a p-val" unless is_a_pval ($mutation_prob); #__INVOKE NEW PATHSCAN OBJECT USING PRE-COMPUTED ARGUMENT LIST FOR EXACT SOLN my $pm_obj; if ($obj->{'assign_level'} == 1) { $pm_obj = Genome::Model::Tools::Music::PathScan::PathScan->new ($obj->{'path_scan_arg_list'}); #__OR FOR APPROXIMATE SOLUTION } elsif ($obj->{'assign_level'} > 1) { $pm_obj = Genome::Model::Tools::Music::PathScan::PathScan->new (@{$obj->{'path_scan_arg_list'}}); #__ALSO FIND THE MAX NUMBER OF MUTATED GENES AMONG ALL SAMPLES IF GIVEN HITS if (defined $list_of_hits && $list_of_hits) { #__MAKE SURE THIS IS A LIST croak "argument must be list reference" unless ref $list_of_hits eq "ARRAY"; #__HARD-SET MAX HITS TO 1 IN CASE 0 SAMPLES HAVE HITS & TRIGGERS TRUNC CDF $max_hits = 1; #__FIND MAXIMUM NUMBER OF HITS foreach my $hits (@{$list_of_hits}) { #__MAKE SURE THIS IS A LEGITIMATE HIT NUMBER croak "'$hits' is not a hit number" unless $hits =~ /^\d+$/ && $hits >= 0 && $hits <= $obj->{'num_genes'}; #__RECORD MAXIMUM $max_hits = $hits if $hits > $max_hits; } #__SAVE MAX HITS TO OBJECT $obj->{'max_hits'} = $max_hits; } #__ELSE WE CANT PROCESS } else { croak "I dont understand the 'assign' level you used previously"; } #__STANDARD PREPROCESSING FOR PathScan OBJECT $pm_obj->preprocess ($mutation_prob); #__COMPUTE AND STORE CDF -- EITHER FULL OR TRUNCATED if ($max_hits) { $obj->{'cdf'} = $pm_obj->cdf_truncated ($max_hits); } else { $obj->{'cdf'} = $pm_obj->cdf; } # $obj->{'cdf'} = $pm_obj->cdf_asymptot; #__WEIRD HEURISTIC: MAKE SURE LAST VALUE IN CDF LIST IS ALWAYS IDENTICALLY UNITY # # We have seen sometimes that the last value appears to be unity, i.e. it # prints as such, but the 'is_a_pval' rejects it either on the real number # regexp, or the <= 1 condition. Here is an actual croak: # # VAL '1' IS NOT REAL # '1' in distribution 1 is not a p-val at Statistics/PopulationPathScan.pm line 395 # # Please track down this problem when you have a chance, but this practical # fix seems to work acceptably for the moment. $obj->{'cdf'}->[$#{$obj->{'cdf'}}] = 1; } # ===================== # POPULATION_PVAL_EXACT tail prob for the population using exact enumeration # ===================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # PROGRAMMING NOTES: # # 1. remember that the cdf list returned from PathScan->cdf # is ordered from most etreme (lowest p-value, highest number of hits) to # least extreme (highest p-value = 1, lowest number of hits = 0). Therefore, # the correct p-value corresponding to the actual number of hits cannot # be naively looked-up in the list according to order, but must rather be # looked up according to the *reverse order*. For example, for the usual # binomial (0.5 + 0.5)^4 (see e.g. Wallis (1942) pp 244), we have # # cdf = [0.0625, 0.3125, 0.6875, 0.9375, 1] # position = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] # meaning = [all 4 hit, at least 3 hit, at least 2, at least 1, at least 0] # # therefore, the actual "hit" pvalue is in position # # $obj->{'num_genes'} - $hits # # 2. CombinePvals does not yet have a method that exploits # scenarios, such as this one, where each individual p-val comes from the # _same_ distribution. Currently, we must call "exact_enum_arbitrary", # which does a full enumeration. Change methods here if the CombinePvals # class ever gets such a method. =head2 population_pval_exact This method performs the population-level calculation using exact enumeration. It takes the list of the number of mutated genes in the group for each sample, e.g. each patient's whole genome sequence, for example patient 1: 4 genes in the pathway are mutated patient 2: 5 genes in the pathway are mutated patient 3: 7 genes in the pathway are mutated patient 4: 3 genes in the pathway are mutated patient 5: 0 genes in the pathway are mutated : : : : : : : : : which is invoked as $pval = $obj->population_pval_exact ([4, 5, 7, 3, 0, ...]); Most scenarios will not actually be able to make use of this method because enumeration of all possible cases is rarely computationally feasible. This method will mostly be useful for examining small test cases. =cut sub population_pval_exact { my $obj = shift; my ($list_of_hits) = @_; #__PROCESS HITS IF THEY'RE SPECIFIED if (defined $list_of_hits && $list_of_hits) { #__MAKE SURE THIS IS A LIST croak "argument must be list reference" unless ref $list_of_hits eq "ARRAY"; #__WE NEED 2 LISTS FOR EXACT METHOD my ($default_arg_list, $cdf_list) = ([], []); #__VALIDATE AND PROCESS THE INPUT INTO ARGUMENT LISTS foreach my $hits (@{$list_of_hits}) { #__MAKE SURE THIS IS A LEGITIMATE HIT NUMBER croak "'$hits' is not a hit number" unless $hits =~ /^\d+$/ && $hits >= 0 && $hits <= $obj->{'num_genes'}; #__TAIL PVAL FOR THIS HIT NUMBER (SEE PROGRAMMING NOTE ABOVE) my $pval_x = $obj->{'cdf'}->[$obj->{'num_genes'} - $hits]; #__STORE IN DEFAULT CombinePvals ARG LIST push @{$default_arg_list}, $pval_x; #__CDFS GO IN SPECIAL ARG LIST FOR EXACT ENUMERATION push @{$cdf_list}, $obj->{'cdf'}; } #__INVOKE NEW COMBINE_PVALS OBJECT USING PRE-COMPUTED ARGUMENT LIST my $combine_obj = Genome::Model::Tools::Music::PathScan::CombinePvals->new ($default_arg_list); #__COMPUTE OVERALL "GROUP" P-VALUE BASED ON EXACT ENUMERATION ###### DEBUG # print "from PopulationPathScan --- args for new\n"; # &PostData ($default_arg_list); # print "from PopulationPathScan --- args for exact_enum_arbitrary\n"; # &PostData ($cdf_list); ###### DEBUG my $pval = $combine_obj->exact_enum_arbitrary (@{$cdf_list}); return $pval; #__OTHERWISE CROAK } else { croak "must specify a list of number of genes mutated for the sample set"; } } # ====================== # POPULATION_PVAL_APPROX tail prob for the population using Lancaster approx # ====================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # PROGRAMMING NOTE: # # remember that the cdf list returned from PathScan->cdf # is ordered from most etreme (lowest p-value, highest number of hits) to # least extreme (highest p-value = 1, lowest number of hits = 0). Therefore, # the correct p-value corresponding to the actual number of hits cannot # be naively looked-up in the list according to order, but must rather be # looked up according to the *reverse order*. For example, for the usual # binomial (0.5 + 0.5)^4 (see e.g. Wallis (1942) pp 244), we have # # cdf = [0.0625, 0.3125, 0.6875, 0.9375, 1] # position = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] # meaning = [all 4 hit, at least 3 hit, at least 2, at least 1, at least 0] # # therefore, the actual "hit" pvalue is in position # # $obj->{'num_genes'} - $hits # # and the next-most-extreme (lower p-value) is in position # # $obj->{'num_genes'} - $hits - 1 # # for using Lancaster's correction methods =head2 population_pval_approx This method performs the population-level calculation using Lancaster's approximate transform correction. It takes, as a mandatory argument, the list of the number of mutated genes in the group for each sample, e.g. each patient's whole genome sequence. $pval = $obj->population_pval_approx ([4, 5, 7, 3, 0, ...]); You must pass the list of hits, even if you already passed this list earlier to the pre-processing method. Most cases will use this method because exact combination of individual probability values is rarely computationally feasible. Note that Lancaster's method typically gives much better (more accurate) results than Fisher's "standard" chi-square transform. =over =item * Fisher, R. A. (1958) I, 13-th Ed. Revised, Hafner Publishing Co., New York. =item * Lancaster, H. O. (1949) I, Biometrika B<36>(3/4), 370-382. =back =cut sub population_pval_approx { my $obj = shift; my ($list_of_hits) = @_; #__PROCESS HITS IF THEY'RE SPECIFIED if (defined $list_of_hits && $list_of_hits) { #__MAKE SURE THIS IS A LIST croak "argument must be list reference" unless ref $list_of_hits eq "ARRAY"; #__WE NEED 2 LISTS FOR LANCASTER'S METHOD my ($default_arg_list, $lancaster_list) = ([], []); #__VALIDATE AND PROCESS THE INPUT INTO ARGUMENT LISTS # DEBUG #print "processing list of hits\n"; # DEBUG foreach my $hits (@{$list_of_hits}) { #__MAKE SURE THIS IS A LEGITIMATE HIT NUMBER croak "'$hits' is not a hit number" unless $hits =~ /^\d+$/ && $hits >= 0 && $hits <= $obj->{'num_genes'}; #__TAIL PVALS FOR THIS HIT NUMBER (SEE PROGRAMMING NOTE ABOVE) my $pval_x = $obj->{'cdf'}->[$obj->{'num_genes'} - $hits]; # my $pval_x_m_1 = $obj->{'cdf'}->[$obj->{'num_genes'} - $hits - 1]; my $pval_x_m_1; my $x_m_1_index = $obj->{'num_genes'} - $hits - 1; if ($x_m_1_index >= 0) { $pval_x_m_1 = $obj->{'cdf'}->[$x_m_1_index]; } else { $pval_x_m_1 = 0; # dont allow this to inadvertently loop to list end } # DEBUG # print " hit number = $hits\n"; # print " number of genes = $obj->{'num_genes'}\n"; # print " pval_x = $pval_x\n"; # print " pval_x_m_1 = $pval_x_m_1\n"; # DEBUG #__STORE IN DEFAULT CombinePvals ARG LIST # (THIS IS ACUTALLY JUST A FORMALITY IF USING LANCASTERS METHOD) push @{$default_arg_list}, $pval_x; #__STORE IN SPECIAL ARG LIST FOR LANCASTERS METHOD: P(X-1) THEN P(X) push @{$lancaster_list}, [$pval_x_m_1, $pval_x]; } #__INVOKE NEW COMBINE_PVALS OBJECT USING PRE-COMPUTED ARGUMENT LIST my $combine_obj = Genome::Model::Tools::Music::PathScan::CombinePvals->new ($default_arg_list); #__COMPUTE OVERALL "GROUP" P-VALUE BASED ON LANCASTERS TRANSFORM CORRECTION my $pval = $combine_obj->lancaster_mixed_corrected_transform (@{$lancaster_list}); return $pval; #__OTHERWISE CROAK } else { croak "must specify a list of number of genes mutated for the sample set"; } } ################################################################################ ## ## ## P R I V A T E M E T H O D S ## ## ## ################################################################################ # ========================================================================== # ROUTINE FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A VARIABLE REPRESENTS A LEGITIMATE P-VALUE # ========================================================================== sub is_a_pval { my ($val) = @_; $DB::single = 1; #__MUST BE A FLOAT (REGEXP: PERL COOKBOOK CHAP 2.1) & MUST BE BOUNDED BY 0 AND 1 if (Genome::Model::Tools::Music::PathScan::PathScan::is_float($val) && $val >= 0 && $val <= 1) { return 1; #__ELSE IT IS NOT A PVAL } else { return 0; } } ################################################################################ ## ## ## T R A I L I N G P O D D O C U M E N T A T I O N ## ## ## ################################################################################ ################################################################################ ## ## ## - E N D - ## ## ## ################################################################################ 1;