Single-cell RNA sequencing for the study of development, physiology and disease

SS Potter - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2018 - nature.com
An ongoing technological revolution is continually improving our ability to carry out very high-
resolution studies of gene expression patterns. Current technology enables the global gene …

Dynamics of the epigenetic landscape during the maternal-to-zygotic transition

MA Eckersley-Maslin, C Alda-Catalinas… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2018 - nature.com
A remarkable epigenetic remodelling process occurs shortly after fertilization, which restores
totipotency to the zygote. This involves global DNA demethylation, chromatin remodelling …

Gene co-expression analysis for functional classification and gene–disease predictions

S Van Dam, U Vosa, A van der Graaf… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Gene co-expression networks can be used to associate genes of unknown function with
biological processes, to prioritize candidate disease genes or to discern transcriptional …

Chromatin analysis in human early development reveals epigenetic transition during ZGA

J Wu, J Xu, B Liu, G Yao, P Wang, Z Lin, B Huang… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Upon fertilization, drastic chromatin reorganization occurs during preimplantation
development. However, the global chromatin landscape and its molecular dynamics in this …

Single-cell RNA sequencing: technical advancements and biological applications

E Hedlund, Q Deng - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Cells are the basic building blocks of organisms and each cell is unique. Single-cell RNA
sequencing has emerged as an indispensable tool to dissect the cellular heterogeneity and …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying cell populations with scRNASeq

TS Andrews, M Hemberg - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Single-cell RNASeq (scRNASeq) has emerged as a powerful method for quantifying the
transcriptome of individual cells. However, the data from scRNASeq experiments is often …

Deconstructing and reconstructing the mouse and human early embryo

MN Shahbazi, M Zernicka-Goetz - Nature cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
The emergence of form and function during mammalian embryogenesis is a complex
process that involves multiple regulatory levels. The foundations of the body plan are laid …

[PDF][PDF] Integrated analysis of single-cell embryo data yields a unified transcriptome signature for the human pre-implantation epiblast

GG Stirparo, T Boroviak, G Guo, J Nichols… - …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Single-cell profiling techniques create opportunities to delineate cell fate progression in
mammalian development. Recent studies have provided transcriptome data from human pre …

[HTML][HTML] Single cell multi-omics technology: methodology and application

Y Hu, Q An, K Sheu, B Trejo, S Fan… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In the era of precision medicine, multi-omics approaches enable the integration of data from
diverse omics platforms, providing multi-faceted insight into the interrelation of these omics …

Introduction to single‐cell RNA sequencing

TK Olsen, N Baryawno - Current protocols in molecular biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade, high‐throughput sequencing methods have revolutionized the entire
field of biology. The opportunity to study entire transcriptomes in great detail using RNA …