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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2024

DeepDecon accurately estimates cancer cell fractions in bulk RNA-seq data.

Jiawei Huang, Yuxuan Du, Andres Stucky, Kevin R Kelly, Jiang F Zhong, Fengzhu Sun

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2024. 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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Jiawei HuangDepartment of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Yuxuan DuDepartment of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Andres StuckyDepartment of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA.
Kevin R KellyDivision of Hematology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Jiang F ZhongDepartment of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA.
Fengzhu SunDepartment of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

Funding

Supplement: Large scale single-cell gene rearrangement detection with a microfluidic deviceR01CA251848 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ZHONG, JOHN · 2020 to 2025
$2.4M
Molecular Characteristics of Treatment-resistant High-risk NeuroblastomaR01CA197903 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ZHONG, JOHN · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA197903NCI NIH HHS R01 CA251848
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the cellular composition of a disease-related tissue is important in disease diagnosis, prognosis, and downstream treatment. Recent advances in single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technique have allowed the measurement of gene expression profiles for individual cells. However, scRNA-seq is still too expensive to be used for large-scale population studies, and bulk RNA-seq is still widely used in such situations. An essential challenge is to deconvolve cellular composition for bulk RNA-seq data based on scRNA-seq data. Here, we present DeepDecon, a deep neural network model that leverages single-cell gene expression information to accurately predict the fraction of cancer cells in bulk tissues. It provides a refining strategy in which the cancer cell fraction is iteratively estimated by a set of trained models. When applied to simulated and real cancer data, DeepDecon exhibits superior performance compared to existing decomposition methods in terms of accuracy.

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cancer tissuedeconvolutiondeep neural networkscRNA-seq

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PMCPMC11117059

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