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Batch effects in single-cell RNA-sequencing data are corrected by matching mutual nearest neighbors
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Large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data sets that are produced in different laboratories and at different times contain batch effects that may compromise the integration and interpretation of the data. Existing scRNA-seq analysis methods incorrectly assume that the composition of cell populations is either known or identical across batches. We present a strategy for batch correction based on the detection of mutual nearest neighbors (MNNs) in the high-dimensional expression space. Our approach does not rely on predefined or equal population compositions across batches; instead, it requires only that a subset of the population be shared between batches. We demonstrate the superiority of our approach compared with existing methods by using both simulated and real scRNA-seq data sets. Using multiple droplet-based scRNA-seq data sets, we demonstrate that our MNN batch-effect-correction method can be scaled to large numbers of cells.
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“We confirm that using an in silico batch correction maintains the sensitivity of all DA methods, comparable to the case of no batch effect, across different batch effect magnitudes (Supp Fig 9; batch effects corrected using fastMNN [19]”
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“We found that the SCING GRN module based dimensionality reduction carried the ability to correct for batch effect and retain biological information (Figure S6) in a similar manner to dedicated batch correction methods such as FastMNN,41 Harmony,42 and Seurat.43”
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“the most widely used data alignment approaches (Butler et al., 2018; Haghverdi et al., 2018; Johnson et al., 2007; Risso et al., 2014) implicitly assume that the differences between datasets arise entirely from technical variation and attempt to eliminate them, or map datasets into a completely shared latent space using dimensions of maximum correlation (Butler et al., 2018).”
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“Data integration methods such as Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA; Butler et al, 2018), Mutual Nearest Neighbours (MNN; Haghverdi et al, 2018), Scanorama (preprint: Hie et al, 2018), RISC (preprint: Liu et al, 2018), scGen (preprint: Lotfollahi et al, 2018), LIGER (preprint: Welch et al, 2018), BBKNN (preprint: Park et al, 2018), and Harmony (preprint: Korsunsky et al, 2018) have been developed”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Haghverdi, L., Lun, A. T. L., Morgan, M. D., & Marioni, J. C.
- Affiliations
- European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Marioni, John C
- Venue
- Nature Biotechnology
- Published
- 2018-04-02
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 421-427
- ISSN
- 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
- 1087-0156
- 1546-1696
- PMC
- PMC6152897
- OpenAlex
- W2794521141
- Cited by
- 2,416
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 266 · 2025: 355 · 2024: 387 · 2023: 364 · 2022: 271 · 2021: 321 · 2020: 240 · 2019: 144 · 2018: 63
- FWCI
- 71.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc)
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- MDC Repository (Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
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- MDC Repository (Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine) (submittedVersion)
- Site cant be reached (submittedVersion)
- PuSH - Publication Server of Helmholtz Zentrum München (submittedVersion)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion)
- Apollo
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (108437, 105045/Z/14/Z)
- Cancer Research UK (22231, C14303 / A17197)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene expression and cancer classification
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Keywords
- batch effects, single-cell RNA sequencing, batch effect correction, mutual nearest neighbors, data integration
- MeSH terms
- Data Analysis, Algorithms, Cluster Analysis, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Single-Cell Analysis, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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