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ArticleCell2019

Single-Cell Multi-omic Integration Compares and Contrasts Features of Brain Cell Identity.

Joshua D Welch, Velina Kozareva, Ashley Ferreira, Charles Vanderburg, Carly Martin, Evan Z Macosko

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Article in Cell, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 755 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Joshua D WelchBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, 450 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: jwelch@broadinstitute.org.
Velina KozarevaBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, 450 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ashley FerreiraBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, 450 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Charles VanderburgBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, 450 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Carly MartinBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, 450 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Evan Z MacoskoBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, 450 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: emacosko@broadinstitute.org.

Funding

Tool and Technology Development CoreU19MH114821 · NIMH · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI HUANG, Z JOSH · 2017 to 2021
$64.5M
NIMH NIH HHS U19 MH114821
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Defining cell types requires integrating diverse single-cell measurements from multiple experiments and biological contexts. To flexibly model single-cell datasets, we developed LIGER, an algorithm that delineates shared and dataset-specific features of cell identity. We applied it to four diverse and challenging analyses of human and mouse brain cells. First, we defined region-specific and sexually dimorphic gene expression in the mouse bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Second, we analyzed expression in the human substantia nigra, comparing cell states in specific donors and relating cell types to those in the mouse. Third, we integrated in situ and single-cell expression data to spatially locate fine subtypes of cells present in the mouse frontal cortex. Finally, we jointly defined mouse cortical cell types using single-cell RNA-seq and DNA methylation profiles, revealing putative mechanisms of cell-type-specific epigenomic regulation. Integrative analyses using LIGER promise to accelerate investigations of cell-type definition, gene regulation, and disease states.

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DNA MethylationGene Expression RegulationSeptal NucleiSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisSubstantia NigraAdolescentAdultAgedAnimalsFemaleHumansMaleMiceMiddle Agedbed nucleus of the stria terminalisdata integrationsingle-cell genomicssubstantia nigra

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PMID31178122
PMCPMC6716797

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