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ArticleGenome biology2025

InSituCor: exploring spatially correlated genes conditional on the cell type landscape.

Patrick Danaher, Dan McGuire, Lidan Wu, Michael Patrick, David Kroeppler, Haiyan Zhai, Deniz G Olgun, Dennis Gong, Jingyi Cao, William L Hwang and 2 more

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Article in Genome biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Patrick DanaherBruker Spatial Biology, Seattle, WA, USA. patrick.danaher@bruker.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2844-5883
Dan McGuireBruker Spatial Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
Lidan WuBruker Spatial Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
Michael PatrickBruker Spatial Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
David KroepplerBruker Spatial Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
Haiyan ZhaiBruker Spatial Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
Deniz G OlgunCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Dennis GongCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jingyi CaoGene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Brigham and Women'S Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
William L HwangCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Joachim SchmidBruker Spatial Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
Joseph M BeechemBruker Spatial Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.

Funding

Elucidating cancer-intrinsic mechanisms of perineural invasion in pancreatic cancerK08CA270417 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI William L Hwang · 2022 to 2026
$1.6M
Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research Quantum AwardNCI NIH HHS K08 CA270417NCI NIH HHS K08CA270417Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Career Development Award
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Abstract

In spatial transcriptomics data, spatially correlated genes promise to reveal high-interest phenomena like cell-cell interactions and latent variables. But in practice, most spatial correlations arise from the spatial arrangement of cell types, obscuring the more interesting relationships we hope to discover. We introduce InSituCor, a toolkit for discovering modules of spatially correlated genes. InSituCor returns only correlations not explainable by already-known factors like the cell type landscape; this spares precious analyst effort. InSituCor supports both unbiased discovery of whole-dataset correlations and knowledge-driven exploration of genes of interest. As a special case, it evaluates ligand-receptor pairs for spatial co-regulation.

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Gene Expression ProfilingSoftwareTranscriptomeGene Regulatory NetworksHumansSpatial correlationSpatial transcriptomicsStatistical methods

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PMCPMC12020328

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