lfcShrink {DESeq2} | R Documentation

## Shrink log2 fold changes

### Description

Adds shrunken log2 fold changes (LFC) and SE to a results table from `DESeq` run without LFC shrinkage. For consistency with `results`, the column name `lfcSE` is used here although what is returned is a posterior SD. Three shrinkage estimators for LFC are available via `type` (see the vignette for more details on the estimators). The apeglm publication demonstrates that 'apeglm' and 'ashr' outperform the original 'normal' shrinkage estimator.

### Usage

    lfcShrink(dds, coef, contrast, res, type = c("apeglm", "ashr", "normal"),
      lfcThreshold = 0, svalue = FALSE, returnList = FALSE,
      format = c("DataFrame", "GRanges", "GRangesList"), apeAdapt = TRUE,
      apeMethod = "nbinomCR", parallel = FALSE, BPPARAM = bpparam(),
      quiet = FALSE, ...)

### Arguments

`dds` | a DESeqDataSet object, after running `DESeq`
`coef` | the name or number of the coefficient (LFC) to shrink, consult `resultsNames(dds)` after running `DESeq(dds)`. note: only `coef` or `contrast` can be specified, not both. `apeglm` requires use of `coef`. For `normal`, one of `coef` or `contrast` must be provided.
`contrast` | see argument description in `results`. only `coef` or `contrast` can be specified, not both.
`res` | a DESeqResults object. Results table produced by the default pipeline, i.e. `DESeq` followed by `results`. If not provided, it will be generated internally using `coef` or `contrast`. For `ashr`, if `res` is provided, then `coef` and `contrast` are ignored.
`type` | `"apeglm"` is the adaptive Student's t prior shrinkage estimator from the 'apeglm' package; `"ashr"` is the adaptive shrinkage estimator from the 'ashr' package, using a fitted mixture of normals prior - see the Stephens (2016) reference below for citation; `"normal"` is the 2014 DESeq2 shrinkage estimator using a Normal prior;
`lfcThreshold` | a non-negative value which specifies a log2 fold change threshold (as in `results`). This can be used in conjunction with `normal` and `apeglm`, where it will produce new p-values or s-values testing whether the LFC is greater in absolute value than the threshold. The s-values returned in combination with `apeglm` provide the probability of FSOS events, "false sign or small", among the tests with equal or smaller s-value than a given gene's s-value, where "small" is specified by `lfcThreshold`.
`svalue` | logical, should p-values and adjusted p-values be replaced with s-values when using `apeglm` or `ashr`. s-values provide the probability of false signs among the tests with equal or smaller s-value than a given given's s-value. See Stephens (2016) reference on s-values.
`returnList` | logical, should `lfcShrink` return a list, where the first element is the results table, and the second element is the output of `apeglm` or `ashr`
`format` | same as defined in `results`, either `"DataFrame"`, `"GRanges"`, or `"GRangesList"`
`apeAdapt` | logical, should `apeglm` use the MLE estimates of LFC to adapt the prior, or use default or specified `prior.control`
`apeMethod` | what `method` to run `apeglm`, which can differ in terms of speed
`parallel` | if FALSE, no parallelization. if TRUE, parallel execution using `BiocParallel`, see same argument of `DESeq` parallelization only used with `normal` or `apeglm`
`BPPARAM` | see same argument of `DESeq`
`quiet` | whether to print messages
`...` | arguments passed to `apeglm` and `ashr`

### Details

See vignette for a comparison of shrinkage estimators on an example dataset. For all shrinkage methods, details on the prior is included in `priorInfo(res)`, including the `fitted_g` mixture for ashr.

For type="apeglm": Specifying `apeglm` passes along DESeq2 MLE log2 fold changes and standard errors to the `apeglm` function in the apeglm package, and re-estimates posterior LFCs for the coefficient specified by `coef`.

For type="ashr": Specifying `ashr` passes along DESeq2 MLE log2 fold changes and standard errors to the `ash` function in the ashr package, with arguments `mixcompdist="normal"` and `method="shrink"`.

For type="normal": For design as a formula, shrinkage cannot be applied to coefficients in a model with interaction terms. For user-supplied model matrices, shrinkage is only supported via `coef`. `coef` will make use of standard model matrices, while `contrast` will make use of expanded model matrices, and for the latter, a results object should be provided to `res`. With numeric- or list-style contrasts, it is possible to use `lfcShrink`, but likely easier to use `DESeq` with `betaPrior=TRUE` followed by `results`, because the numeric or list should reference the coefficients from the expanded model matrix. These coefficients will be printed to console if 'contrast' is used.

### Value

a DESeqResults object with the `log2FoldChange` and `lfcSE` columns replaced with shrunken LFC and SE. For consistency with `results` (and similar to the output of `bayesglm`) the column name `lfcSE` is used here, although what is returned is a posterior SD. For `normal` and for `apeglm` the estimate is the posterior mode, for `ashr` it is the posterior mean. `priorInfo(res)` contains information about the shrinkage procedure, relevant to the various methods specified by `type`.

### References

Publications for the following shrinkage estimators:

`type="apeglm"`:

Zhu, A., Ibrahim, J.G., Love, M.I. (2018) Heavy-tailed prior distributions for sequence count data: removing the noise and preserving large differences. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty895

`type="ashr"`:

Stephens, M. (2016) False discovery rates: a new deal. Biostatistics, 18:2. https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxw041

`type="normal"`:

Love, M.I., Huber, W., Anders, S. (2014) Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2. Genome Biology, 15:550. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-014-0550-8

Related work, the `bayesglm` function in the `arm` package:

Gelman, A., Jakulin, A., Pittau, M.G. and Su, Y.-S. (2009). A Weakly Informative Default Prior Distribution For Logistic And Other Regression Models. The Annals of Applied Statistics 2:4. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/ priors11.pdf

### Examples

    set.seed(1)
    dds <- makeExampleDESeqDataSet(n=500,betaSD=1)
    dds <- DESeq(dds)
    res <- results(dds)

    # these are the coefficients from the model
    # we can specify them using 'coef' by name or number below
    resultsNames(dds)

    res.ape <- lfcShrink(dds=dds, coef=2, type="apeglm")
    res.ash <- lfcShrink(dds=dds, coef=2, type="ashr")
    res.norm <- lfcShrink(dds=dds, coef=2, type="normal")

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