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SCDC: bulk gene expression deconvolution by multiple single-cell RNA sequencing references

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Dong, Meichen, Thennavan, Aatish, Urrutia, Eugene, Li, Yun, Perou, Charles M, Zou, Fei, Jiang, Yuchao·2021·Briefings in Bioinformatics

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Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enable characterization of transcriptomic profiles with single-cell resolution and circumvent averaging artifacts associated with traditional bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data. Here, we propose SCDC, a deconvolution method for bulk RNA-seq that leverages cell-type specific gene expression profiles from multiple scRNA-seq reference datasets. SCDC adopts an ENSEMBLE method to integrate deconvolution results from different scRNA-seq datasets that are produced in different laboratories and at different times, implicitly addressing the problem of batch-effect confounding. SCDC is benchmarked against existing methods using both in silico generated pseudo-bulk samples and experimentally mixed cell lines, whose known cell-type compositions serve as ground truths. We show that SCDC outperforms existing methods with improved accuracy of cell-type decomposition under both settings. To illustrate how the ENSEMBLE framework performs in complex tissues under different scenarios, we further apply our method to a human pancreatic islet dataset and a mouse mammary gland dataset. SCDC returns results that are more consistent with experimental designs and that reproduce more significant associations between cell-type proportions and measured phenotypes.

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Authors
Dong, M., Thennavan, A., Urrutia, E., Li, Y., Perou, C. M., Zou, F., & Jiang, Y.
Venue
Briefings in Bioinformatics
Published
2020-01-10
Volume
22
Issue
1
Pages
416-427
ISSN
  • 1467-5463 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-4054
OpenAlex
W3000010184
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252
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15
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5.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
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hybrid

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Dong, M., Thennavan, A., Urrutia, E., Li, Y., Perou, C. M., Zou, F., & Jiang, Y. (2021). SCDC: bulk gene expression deconvolution by multiple single-cell RNA sequencing references. Briefings in Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbz166

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