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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Correlated gene modules uncovered by high-precision single-cell transcriptomics.

Alec R Chapman, David F Lee, Wenting Cai, Wenping Ma, Xiang Li, Wenjie Sun, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Alec R ChapmanDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
David F LeeDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Wenting CaiDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Wenping MaBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2624-5850
Xiang LiBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8842-1595
Wenjie SunBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Xiaoliang Sunney XieBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

Funding

MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING GRANTT32GM008313 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI MURTHY, VENKATESH N · 1989 to 2023
$14.6M
Probing Dynamics of The Human Genome by Single Cell SequencingDP1CA186693 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI PURCELL, PATRICIA · 2013 to 2017
$4.2M
NCI NIH HHS DP1 CA186693NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008313
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Correlations in gene expression are used to infer functional and regulatory relationships between genes. However, correlations are often calculated across different cell types or perturbations, causing genes with unrelated functions to be correlated. Here, we demonstrate that correlated modules can be better captured by measuring correlations of steady-state gene expression fluctuations in single cells. We report a high-precision single-cell RNA-seq method called MALBAC-DT to measure the correlation between any pair of genes in a homogenous cell population. Using this method, we were able to identify numerous cell-type specific and functionally enriched correlated gene modules. We confirmed through knockdown that a module enriched for p53 signaling predicted p53 regulatory targets more accurately than a consensus of ChIP-seq studies and that steady-state correlations were predictive of transcriptome-wide response patterns to perturbations. This approach provides a powerful way to advance our functional understanding of the genome.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksTumor Suppressor Protein p53Gene Expression ProfilingSignal TransductionSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptomeTumor Suppressor Protein p53correlated gene modulesscRNA-seqsingle celltranscriptomics

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PMID36508663
PMCPMC9907105

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