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  • shirley47162928
    Member
    • Jan 2015
    • 15

    #1

    sva package for batch correction

    Hello,
    I am trying to do Batch correction using SVA package (with ComBat function) for my RNA-seq raw counts data.
    When performing step 4: Applying the sva fuction, I found an error message like this:

    PHP Code:
    > n.sv = num.sv(edata2,mod,method="leek")
    > 
    n.sv
    [1] 14
    > svobj = sva(edata2,mod,mod0,n.sv=n.sv)
    Number of significant surrogate variables is:  14 
    Iteration 
    (out of 5 ):Error in density.default(x, adjust = adj) : 'x' contains missing values
    In addition
    : Warning message:
    In pf(fstats, df1 = (df1 - df0), df2 = (n - df1)) : NaNs produced
    Error during wrapup
    : cannot open the connection 
    Because my raw counts data have many genes show zero expression, I then removed those lines with zero. And I also removed batches that had only one sample each. Then this error message was still there. But I can go ahead with step 7: Applying the ComBat function and get the adjusted data.

    I wonder if it correct that I remove those lines with zero.

    my original expression data looks like this:
    PHP Code:
    > head(edata)
             
    FH1.B2.K100813 FH0.B3.K100823 FH1.B2.K100826 FH1.B2.K100831 FH0.B2.K101448 FH0.B2.K102654 FH0.B5.K104200 FH0.B5.K104238 FH0.B2.K104250 FH0.B2.K104343 FH0.B3.K104403 FH0.B5.K104443
    40969             69.00          11.00           4.00          55.00          78.67         138.00         109.00          70.00         144.00         127.92         118.00          57.00
    40970            569.43          73.22           6.00         534.51         153.15         400.14         351.60         440.97         127.28         214.97         106.65         455.01
    40974           1647.12         150.30          51.58        1932.85        1018.62        1039.99        2019.72        2080.37        1634.20         847.77         882.49        1834.79
    ADAM23             5.01           0.00           0.00           4.96          32.00           0.00          33.00          19.91          30.01          10.01          23.00           9.92
    ASNS              91.39          31.00           6.00          99.32         157.44         130.71         176.98          76.58         290.99         113.38         127.00         101.89
    C14ORF10          14.01           4.07           0.00          32.78          15.74           8.29          22.71          31.55          19.09          18.76           7.58          19.44
             FH1
    .B5.K104506 FH0.B2.K104603 FH0.B2.K104638 FH1.B2.K104824
    40969            120.00         191.00          56.00          58.00
    40970            550.40         764.77         310.11         329.31
    40974           1742.01        2296.24        1081.09         911.42
    ADAM23            19.91          39.98          20.02           4.98
    ASNS              84.12          89.83          63.28          95.25
    C14ORF10          13.40          29.57          15.75          11.14 
  • boilermaker
    Junior Member
    • Apr 2014
    • 5

    #2
    Did you find the solution?

    I am getting the same error message. Did you ever find an answer?

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    • fp1
      Junior Member
      • Nov 2014
      • 1

      #3
      Also having the same problem...

      ...and wondering if you found an answer?

      In my case, the number of significant surrogate variables estimated = 6

      I do find that everything runs fine if I lower that to 5, but I'm really not sure why that should be...

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      • anton.kratz
        Junior Member
        • Jun 2016
        • 7

        #4
        I am running into the very same error:

        "Error in density.default(x, adjust = adj) : 'x' contains missing values"

        I found various posts (stackoverflow, bioconductor support forum, biostars) referrin to this error but now solution, only workarounds without any understanding or explanation what causes the error, or why workarounds seem to work. Suggested solutions were: reducing the number of n.sv until it works, removing genes with low counts until it works.

        Did anyone find a solution to this?

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