Worked Example: PCA on SNPs data from a vcf file Part 1 - Data Preparation
2022-11-19
Introduction
In this worked example you will replicate a PCA on a published dataset.
The example is split into 2 Parts:
- Part 1: Data Preparation (this file)
- Part 2: Data analysis with PCA
In this Data Preparation phase, you will do the following things:
- Load the SNP genotypes in .vcf format
(
vcfR::read.vcfR()) - Extract the genotypes into an R-compatible format
(
vcfR::extract.gt()) - Rotate the data into the standard R analysis format
(
t()) - Remove individuals (rows) from the data set that have >50% NAs (using a function I wrote)
- Remove SNPs (columns) that are fixed
- Impute remaining NAs (using a
for()loop) - Save the prepared data as a
.csvfile for the next step (write.csv())
Biological background
This worked example is based on a paper in the journal Molecular Ecology from 2017 by Jennifer Walsh titled Subspecies delineation amid phenotypic, geographic and genetic discordance in a songbird.
The study investigated variation between two bird species in the genus Ammodramus: A. nenlsoni and A. caudacutus.
The species A. nenlsoni has been divided into 3 sub-species: A. n. nenlsoni, A.n. alterus, and A n. subvirgatus. The other species, A. caudacutus, has been divided into two subspecies, A.c. caudacutus and A.c. diversus.
The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent these five subspecies recognized by taxonomists are supported by genetic data. The author’s collected DNA from 75 birds (15 per subspecies) and genotyped 1929 SNPs. They then analyzed the data with Principal Components Analysis (PCA), among other genetic analyzes.
This tutorial will work through all of the steps necessary to re-analyze Walsh et al.s data
Tasks
In the code below all code is provided. Your tasks will be to do 2 things:
- Give a meaningful title to all sections marked “TODO: TITLE”
- Write 1 to 2 sentences describing what is being done and why in all sections marked “TODO: EXPLAIN”
Preliminaries
Load the vcfR and other packages with library().
library(vcfR) ##
## ***** *** vcfR *** *****
## This is vcfR 1.13.0
## browseVignettes('vcfR') # Documentation
## citation('vcfR') # Citation
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library(ggpubr)Make sure that your working directory is set to the location of the
file all_loci.vcf.
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TODO: Load
TODO: The data from the vcf file is being loaded in SNP format.
snps <- vcfR::read.vcfR("all_loci.vcf", convertNA = TRUE)## Scanning file to determine attributes.
## File attributes:
## meta lines: 8
## header_line: 9
## variant count: 1929
## column count: 81
##
Meta line 8 read in.
## All meta lines processed.
## gt matrix initialized.
## Character matrix gt created.
## Character matrix gt rows: 1929
## Character matrix gt cols: 81
## skip: 0
## nrows: 1929
## row_num: 0
##
Processed variant 1000
Processed variant: 1929
## All variants processedTODO: Extract
TODO: The SNP format will now be extracted and converted into R-compatible format.
snps_num <- vcfR::extract.gt(snps,
element = "GT",
IDtoRowNames = F,
as.numeric = T,
convertNA = T,
return.alleles = F)TODO: Rotate
TODO: Transposing original VCF file into R dataframe orientation, since we want to make a dataframe.
snps_num_t <- t(snps_num) TODO: Once you have the actual dataframe orientation you can make a dataframe
snps_num_df <- data.frame(snps_num_t) TODO: Find NAs
TODO: We created a function to find count the amount of NAs in our dataframe. The function will also give us a dataframe that has only the NAs. This could be for imputation or simply removing the NAs.
find_NAs <- function(x){
NAs_TF <- is.na(x)
i_NA <- which(NAs_TF == TRUE)
N_NA <- length(i_NA)
cat("Results:",N_NA, "NAs present\n.")
return(i_NA)
}TODO: Essentially we are using a for loop to iterate to each row in the dataframe to find the location of NAs. Getting the amount of NAs and saving the amount of NAs to a storage vector.
# N_rows
# number of rows (individuals)
N_rows <- nrow(snps_num_t)
# N_NA
# vector to hold output (number of NAs)
N_NA <- rep(x = 0, times = N_rows)
# N_SNPs
# total number of columns (SNPs)
N_SNPs <- ncol(snps_num_t)
# the for() loop
for(i in 1:N_rows){
# for each row, find the location of
## NAs with snps_num_t()
i_NA <- find_NAs(snps_num_t[i,])
# then determine how many NAs
## with length()
N_NA_i <- length(i_NA)
# then save the output to
## our storage vector
N_NA[i] <- N_NA_i
}## Results: 28 NAs present
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## .TODO: We are trying to see if we have quality data, essentially plotting 50% of SNP cutoff.
# 50% of N_SNPs
cutoff50 <- N_SNPs*0.5
hist(N_NA)
abline(v = cutoff50,
col = 2,
lwd = 2,
lty = 2)
TODO: Checking if any of our rows have greater than 50% NA
percent_NA <- N_NA/N_SNPs*100
# Call which() on percent_NA
i_NA_50percent <- which(percent_NA > 50)
snps_num_t02 <- snps_num_t[-i_NA_50percent, ]TODO: Removing names
TODO: We edited the dataframe so we could get rid of the extra wording like sample, ATG, and 01-9, just to give us the “ALT”, “Nel” row names. Makes it more concise.
row_names <- row.names(snps_num_t02) # Key
row_names02 <- gsub("sample_","",row_names)
sample_id <- gsub("^([ATCG]*)(_)(.*)",
"\\3",
row_names02)
pop_id <- gsub("[01-9]*",
"",
sample_id)
table(pop_id) ## pop_id
## Alt Cau Div Nel Sub
## 15 12 15 15 11TODO: Remove
TODO: In this function we removed invariant columns because if they existed there is no reason to anaylze that data. Would waste time, and computational speed.
invar_omit <- function(x){
cat("Dataframe of dim",dim(x), "processed...\n")
sds <- apply(x, 2, sd, na.rm = TRUE)
i_var0 <- which(sds == 0)
cat(length(i_var0),"columns removed\n")
if(length(i_var0) > 0){
x <- x[, -i_var0]
}
## add return() with x in it
return(x)
}
snps_no_invar <- invar_omit(snps_num_t02) ## Dataframe of dim 68 1929 processed...
## 591 columns removedTODO: Impute
TODO: In columns with NAs that meet the cutoff we replace the NAs with the mean of the current column. This we now have No NAs and can analyze data.
snps_noNAs <- snps_no_invar
N_col <- ncol(snps_no_invar)
for(i in 1:N_col){
# get the current column
column_i <- snps_noNAs[, i]
# get the mean of the current column
mean_i <- mean(column_i, na.rm = TRUE)
# get the NAs in the current column
NAs_i <- which(is.na(column_i))
# record the number of NAs
N_NAs <- length(NAs_i)
# replace the NAs in the current column
column_i[NAs_i] <- mean_i
# replace the original column with the
## updated columns
snps_noNAs[, i] <- column_i
}Save the data
Save the data as a .csv file which can be loaded again later.
write.csv(snps_noNAs, file = "SNPs_cleaned.csv",
row.names = F)Check for the presence of the file with list.files()
list.files(pattern = ".csv")## [1] "1000genomes_people_info2-1.csv" "SNPs_cleaned.csv"
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## [5] "vcf_num.csv" "walsh2017morphology.csv"Next steps:
In Part 2, we will re-load the SNPs_cleaned.csv file and
carry an an analysis with PCA.