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ArticleGenome biology2021

BRIE2: computational identification of splicing phenotypes from single-cell transcriptomic experiments.

Yuanhua Huang, Guido Sanguinetti

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Article in Genome biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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Yuanhua HuangSchool of Biomedical Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Pok Fu Lam, China. yuanhua@hku.hk.ORCID 0000-0003-3124-9186
Guido SanguinettiSchool of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. gsanguin@sissa.it.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA splicing is an important driver of heterogeneity in single cells through the expression of alternative transcripts and as a determinant of transcriptional kinetics. However, the intrinsic coverage limitations of scRNA-seq technologies make it challenging to associate specific splicing events to cell-level phenotypes. BRIE2 is a scalable computational method that resolves these issues by regressing single-cell transcriptomic data against cell-level features. We show that BRIE2 effectively identifies differential disease-associated alternative splicing events and allows a principled selection of genes that capture heterogeneity in transcriptional kinetics and improve RNA velocity analyses, enabling the identification of splicing phenotypes associated with biological changes.

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Single-Cell AnalysisBayes TheoremComputer SimulationHumansMultiple SclerosisPhenotypeProtein IsoformsRNARNA SplicingTranscriptomeProtein IsoformsRNADifferential alternative splicingDifferential momentum genesSingle-cell RNA-seqVariational Bayes

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PMID34452629
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