Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics

SK Longo, MG Guo, AL Ji, PA Khavari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) identifies cell subpopulations within tissue but
does not capture their spatial distribution nor reveal local networks of intercellular …

Molecular mechanisms of environmental exposures and human disease

H Wu, CM Eckhardt, AA Baccarelli - Nature reviews genetics, 2023 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of disease risk for common complex disorders is attributable to
environmental exposures and pollutants. An appreciation of how environmental pollutants …

Benchmarking of cell type deconvolution pipelines for transcriptomics data

F Avila Cobos, J Alquicira-Hernandez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many computational methods have been developed to infer cell type proportions from bulk
transcriptomics data. However, an evaluation of the impact of data transformation, pre …

Integrative analysis of drug response and clinical outcome in acute myeloid leukemia

D Bottomly, N Long, AR Schultz, SE Kurtz, CE Tognon… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of myeloid-lineage cells with limited therapeutic
options. We previously combined ex vivo drug sensitivity with genomic, transcriptomic, and …

The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues

M Oliva, M Muñoz-Aguirre, S Kim-Hellmuth, V Wucher… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Many complex human phenotypes, including diseases, exhibit sex-
differentiated characteristics. These sex differences have been variously attributed to …

Comprehensive evaluation of transcriptome-based cell-type quantification methods for immuno-oncology

G Sturm, F Finotello, F Petitprez, JD Zhang… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The composition and density of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment
(TME) profoundly influence tumor progression and success of anti-cancer therapies. Flow …

Bulk tissue cell type deconvolution with multi-subject single-cell expression reference

X Wang, J Park, K Susztak, NR Zhang, M Li - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of cell type composition in disease relevant tissues is an important step
towards the identification of cellular targets of disease. We present MuSiC, a method that …

Single-cell transcriptomics in cancer: computational challenges and opportunities

J Fan, K Slowikowski, F Zhang - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Intratumor heterogeneity is a common characteristic across diverse cancer types and
presents challenges to current standards of treatment. Advancements in high-throughput …

A benchmark for RNA-seq deconvolution analysis under dynamic testing environments

H Jin, Z Liu - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Deconvolution analyses have been widely used to track compositional
alterations of cell types in gene expression data. Although a large number of novel methods …

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

M Dong, A Thennavan, E Urrutia, Y Li… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enable characterization of
transcriptomic profiles with single-cell resolution and circumvent averaging artifacts …