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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

CellMAGE: cell-type deconvolution for multi-parent population analysis of gene expression.

Robyn L Ball, Alyssa Klein, Ashley A Auth, Daniel A Skelly, Hao He, Vivek M Philip, Leona Gagnon, Elissa J Chesler

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Robyn L BallThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7335-3339
Alyssa KleinThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3763-5731
Ashley A AuthThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA.
Daniel A SkellyThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2329-2216
Hao HeThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA.
Vivek M PhilipThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA.
Leona GagnonThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA.
Elissa J CheslerThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5642-5062

Funding

Shared Resource ManagementP30CA034196 · NCI · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI William Carl Skarnes · 1985 to 2026
$61.9M
Discovery of Addiction-Related Genes with Advanced Mouse ResourcesR01DA037927 · NIDA · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI CHESLER, ELISSA J · 2015 to 2025
$8.1M
Improving Antiretroviral Adherence and Persistence using mHealth Tools in HIV-infected Cocaine UsersR21DA039842 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ALTICE, FREDERICK LEWIS · 2016 to 2017
$461k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA034196NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA037927NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA039842
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA-sequencing remains prohibitively expensive for multiparental population (MPP) studies. Existing deconvolution methods treat bulk RNA-seq as genetically anonymous mixtures, but in MPPs, the proportional contribution of each parental strain to each progeny's transcriptome is already known. CellMAGE (Cell-type deconvolution for Multi-parent Analysis of Gene Expression) weights parental cell-type profiles by each progeny's known genetic composition, requiring no model training and no minimum sample size. Validated in 16 Diversity Outbred mice across 12 prefrontal cortex cell types and 23,116 genes, predicted and measured gene expression were statistically equivalent (±0.05) in all cell types (pooled Spearman ρ = 0.923, 95% CI: 0.910, 0.934). CIBERSORTx required 96 additional samples to resolve at most 12.4% of genes and only 3 cell types; CellMAGE outperformed it even within this restricted comparison (per-cell-type median ρ: 0.908-0.974 vs. 0.353-0.641). CellMAGE is applicable to any MPP with parental single-cell data, including diploid crop MAGIC populations.

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allele-specific expressionbulk RNA-seq deconvolutioncell deconvolutioncell-type fractionscell-type gene expressionCollaborative CrossDiversity OutbredEMASEeQTLMultiparent Advanced Generation Inter-Cross (MAGIC)multiparental populationsMus musculusprefrontal cortexscRNA-seqsnRNA-seq

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PMID42818711
PMCPMC13622610

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