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ArticleNature communications2018

Uncovering pseudotemporal trajectories with covariates from single cell and bulk expression data.

Kieran R Campbell, Christopher Yau

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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76 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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2 authors.

Kieran R CampbellDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QX, UK.
Christopher YauWellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK. c.yau@bham.ac.uk.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L001411/1Medical Research Council MR/P02646X/1Medical Research Council (MRC) MR/L001411/1Medical Research Council (MRC) MR/P02646X/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 090532/Z/09/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudotime algorithms can be employed to extract latent temporal information from cross-sectional data sets allowing dynamic biological processes to be studied in situations where the collection of time series data is challenging or prohibitive. Computational techniques have arisen from single-cell 'omics and cancer modelling where pseudotime can be used to learn about cellular differentiation or tumour progression. However, methods to date typically implicitly assume homogeneous genetic, phenotypic or environmental backgrounds, which becomes limiting as data sets grow in size and complexity. We describe a novel statistical framework that learns how pseudotime trajectories can be modulated through covariates that encode such factors. We apply this model to both single-cell and bulk gene expression data sets and show that the approach can recover known and novel covariate-pseudotime interaction effects. This hybrid regression-latent variable model framework extends pseudotemporal modelling from its most prevalent area of single cell genomics to wider applications.

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Models, GeneticAlgorithmsDatasets as TopicGene Expression ProfilingGenomicsHumansSingle-Cell AnalysisTime Factors

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PMID29934517
PMCPMC6015076

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