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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2026

Disentangling covariate effects on single-cell-resolved epigenomes with DeepDive.

Andreas Fønss Møller, Jesper Grud Skat Madsen

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 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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Andreas Fønss MøllerDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark.
Jesper Grud Skat MadsenDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the effects of individual biological factors from single-cell-resolved epigenomic data is hindered by multicollinearity, particularly in human cohorts. We introduce DeepDive, a deep-learning framework designed to systematically disentangle known and unknown sources of variation in single-nucleus ATAC-seq data. DeepDive accurately reconstructs chromatin accessibility, outperforms state-of-the-art methods with incomplete covariate information, and robustly recovers true biological signals from even highly entangled covariates, unlocking counterfactual, "what-if," analyses. Applying DeepDive to pancreatic islet cells, we perform counterfactual analyses to prioritize covariates associated with a type 2 diabetes-linked beta-cell subtype and nominate transcription regulators. DeepDive offers a powerful and unbiased tool for mechanistic discovery in complex human disease cohorts.

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disentanglementrepresentation learningsingle-cell epigenomicssingle-nucleus ATAC-seqtype 2 diabetes

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PMID42746519
PMCPMC13576652

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