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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Multi-scale spatial testing recovers gene programs missed by existing detection methods.

Chen Yang, Xianyang Zhang, Jun Chen

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Chen YangDepartment of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA.
Xianyang ZhangDepartment of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA.
Jun ChenDivision of Computational Biology, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, USA.

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Methods for microbiome compositional dataR01GM144351 · NIGMS · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI Jun Chen, Xianyang Zhang · 2022 to 2026
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM144351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying spatially variable genes (SVGs) is the first analytical step in spatial transcriptomics, determining which genes and pathways are prioritized for downstream validation. Yet the restricted spatial models of current detection methods create systematic blind spots that can exclude biologically coherent programs from discovery. Here we present FlashS, which reformulates kernel-based spatial testing in the frequency domain to detect arbitrary multi-scale expression patterns while scaling to millions of cells. In human cardiac tissue, this broader detection capacity recovers a coherent PGC-1

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kernel methodsrandom Fourier featuressingle-cell genomicsspatially variable genesspatial transcriptomics

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PMID41890107
PMCPMC13015534

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