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ArticleGenome biology2021

treekoR: identifying cellular-to-phenotype associations by elucidating hierarchical relationships in high-dimensional cytometry data.

Adam Chan, Wei Jiang, Emily Blyth, Jean Yang, Ellis Patrick

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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 4 papers.

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Adam ChanSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Wei JiangCentre for Cancer Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Emily BlythCentre for Cancer Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Jean YangSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Ellis PatrickSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ellis.patrick@sydney.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-5253-4747

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-throughput single-cell technologies hold the promise of discovering novel cellular relationships with disease. However, analytical workflows constructed for these technologies to associate cell proportions with disease often employ unsupervised clustering techniques that overlook the valuable hierarchical structures that have been used to define cell types. We present treekoR, a framework that empirically recapitulates these structures, facilitating multiple quantifications and comparisons of cell type proportions. Our results from twelve case studies reinforce the importance of quantifying proportions relative to parent populations in the analyses of cytometry data - as failing to do so can lead to missing important biological insights.

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PhenotypeCD8 AntigensCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCluster AnalysisCOVID-19Flow CytometryGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansSingle-Cell AnalysisCD8 Antigens

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PMID34844647
PMCPMC8628061

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