tcga_colon_blocks: Example methylation data (blocks) for epivizr vignette.
In epivizrChart: R interface to epiviz web components

Description Usage Format Source

Example results from methylation analysis of human chromosome 11 using the minfi package of TCGA 450k beadarray samples. This object contains large regions of methylation difference between tumor and normal samples obtained from minfi::blockFinder().

1	data(tcga_colon_blocks)

A GenomicRanges::GRanges object with 129 and mcols:

value: average smooth methylation difference within block
area: block area estimate (abs(value) * length)
cluster: id of cluster blockgroup within which block occurs
indexStart: index of first cluster in block
indexEnd: index of last cluster in block
L: number of clusters in block
clusterL: number of probes in block
p.value: permutation p.value based on difference conditioned on length
fwer: family-wise error rate estimate based on difference conditioned on length
p.valueArea: permutation p.value based on area
fwerArea: family-wise error rate estimate based on area