Fig. 3. Age-associations in copy number drivers are associated with functional changes in mRNA and survival.
Summary of all detected age-associated CNAs for driver (A) losses (indicated by blue covariate bar) and (B) gains (red covariate bar) across three datasets. Dot size shows the magnitude of the association as the difference in proportion and the background shading shows adjusted multivariate p values. Right covariate indicates copy number gain drivers in red and loss drivers in blue. C Age-associated CNAs lead to differential mRNA abundance with respect to the CNA itself (top), age (middle), as well as age-specific effects of the CNA (bottom). D In TCGA sarcoma (n = 255 biologically independent samples), CDKN2A mRNA abundance changes between copy number loss (blue) or no loss (black) and broken down by age for low vs. high age. Tukey boxplots are shown with the box indicating quartiles and the whiskers drawn at the lowest and highest points within 1.5 interquartile range of the lower and upper quartiles, respectively. FDR-adjusted p values from two-sided Wilcoxon rank sum test and Spearman correlations shown. E SUFU loss in glioblastoma (GBM; n = 574 biologically independent samples) interacts with age to further stratify patient prognosis. The adjusted p value for the copy number loss-age interaction term is shown. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.