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Trial reportNature communications2023

Estimation of cell lineages in tumors from spatial transcriptomics data.

Beibei Ru, Jinlin Huang, Yu Zhang, Kenneth Aldape, Peng Jiang

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Beibei Ru *Cancer Data Science Lab, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3897-7733
Jinlin Huang *Department of Clinical Oncology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Yu ZhangCancer Data Science Lab, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Kenneth AldapeLaboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5119-7550
Peng JiangCancer Data Science Lab, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. peng.jiang@nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-7828-5486

Funding

Computational approaches for the analyses of spatial profiling technologiesZIABC011890 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI JIANG, PENG · 2019 to 2025
$4.1M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technology through in situ capturing has enabled topographical gene expression profiling of tumor tissues. However, each capturing spot may contain diverse immune and malignant cells, with different cell densities across tissue regions. Cell type deconvolution in tumor ST data remains challenging for existing methods designed to decompose general ST or bulk tumor data. We develop the Spatial Cellular Estimator for Tumors (SpaCET) to infer cell identities from tumor ST data. SpaCET first estimates cancer cell abundance by integrating a gene pattern dictionary of copy number alterations and expression changes in common malignancies. A constrained regression model then calibrates local cell densities and determines immune and stromal cell lineage fractions. SpaCET provides higher accuracy than existing methods based on simulation and real ST data with matched double-blind histopathology annotations as ground truth. Further, coupling cell fractions with ligand-receptor coexpression analysis, SpaCET reveals how intercellular interactions at the tumor-immune interface promote cancer progression.

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NeoplasmsTranscriptomeCell LineageComputer SimulationGene Expression ProfilingHumans

Identifiers

PMID36732531
PMCPMC9895078

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