As input to iCluster, we used four molecular platforms: DNA copy number, DNA methylation, mRNA expression, and miRNA expression. Data were pre-processed using the following procedures. Copy number alteration data was derived from CBS segmented data from the Affymetrix
SNP6.0 array platform, and further reduced to a set of ~4000 non-redundant regions as described (Mo et al., 2013 (
link)). For the methylation data (Illumina
Infinium 450k arrays), the median absolute deviation was employed to select the top 4000 most variable CpG sites after beta-mixture quantile normalization (Pidsley et al., 2013 (
link)). We removed methylation probes with >20% or more missing data and those corresponding to SNP and autosomal chromosomes. For mRNA and miRNA sequence data, we excluded genes with low expression (based on median-normalized counts). Variance filtering led to 4000 mRNAs and a variable number of miRNAs for clustering. mRNA and miRNA expression features were log
2 transformed, normalized, and scaled before inputting to iCluster.
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