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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Detection of differentially abundant cell subpopulations in scRNA-seq data.

Jun Zhao, Ariel Jaffe, Henry Li, Ofir Lindenbaum, Esen Sefik, Ruaidhrí Jackson, Xiuyuan Cheng, Richard A Flavell, Yuval Kluger

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers.

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97citing papers in PubMed
9.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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97 citing papers in PubMed, 163 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jun ZhaoDepartment of Pathology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6671-0000
Ariel JaffeProgram in Applied Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7637-7128
Henry LiProgram in Applied Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Ofir LindenbaumProgram in Applied Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Esen SefikDepartment of Immunobiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Ruaidhrí JacksonDepartment of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Xiuyuan ChengDepartment of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.
Richard A FlavellDepartment of Immunobiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511; richard.flavell@yale.edu.
Yuval KlugerDepartment of Pathology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3035-071X
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Funding

Yale SPORE in Skin CancerP50CA121974 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI DAVID F STERN · 2006 to 2026
$43.9M
The Y-SCORCH Data Generation Center at Yale for Single-Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIVUM1DA051410 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GERSTEIN, MARK BENDER, KLUGER, YUVAL · 2020 to 2025
$15.3M
Polycystin Dependent Mechanisms of Tubular PlasticityR01DK121948 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SOMLO, STEFAN · 2019 to 2023
$2.4M
EFFICIENT METHODS FOR CALIBRATION, CLUSTERING, VISUALIZATION AND IMPUTATION OF LARGE scRNA-seq DATAR01GM131642 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KLUGER, YUVAL · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
EFFICIENT SPECTRAL APPROACHES FOR FINDING UNDERLYING STRUCTURES IN BIG DATAR01HG008383 · NHGRI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KLUGER, YUVAL · 2016 to 2018
$1.2M
Imputing Single Cell Rna Sequencing Data: Mathematical, Statistical And Computational ChallengesR01GM135928 · NIGMS · RICE UNIVERSITY · PI CHI, ERIC C · 2019 to 2021
$696k
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA121974NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG008383NIDA NIH HHS UM1 DA051410NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK121948NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM131642NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM135928NIH HHS 2P50CA121974
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Comprehensive and accurate comparisons of transcriptomic distributions of cells from samples taken from two different biological states, such as healthy versus diseased individuals, are an emerging challenge in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis. Current methods for detecting differentially abundant (DA) subpopulations between samples rely heavily on initial clustering of all cells in both samples. Often, this clustering step is inadequate since the DA subpopulations may not align with a clear cluster structure, and important differences between the two biological states can be missed. Here, we introduce DA-seq, a targeted approach for identifying DA subpopulations not restricted to clusters. DA-seq is a multiscale method that quantifies a local DA measure for each cell, which is computed from its

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AgingB-LymphocytesBrainCell LineageCOVID-19CytokinesDatasets as TopicDendritic CellsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMelanomaMonocytesPhenotypeRNA, Small CytoplasmicCytokinesRNA, Small Cytoplasmiclocal differential abundanceRNA-seqsingle cell

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PMID34001664
PMCPMC8179149
OpenAlexW3161562754

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