Overcoming Expressional Drop-outs in Lineage Reconstruction from Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data

Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved..

Single-cell lineage tracing provides crucial insights into the fates of individual cells. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is commonly applied in modern biomedical research, but genetics-based lineage tracing for scRNA-seq data is still unexplored. Variant calling from scRNA-seq data uniquely suffers from "expressional drop-outs," including low expression and allelic bias in gene expression, which presents significant obstacles for lineage reconstruction. We introduce SClineager, which infers accurate evolutionary lineages from scRNA-seq data by borrowing information from related cells to overcome expressional drop-outs. We systematically validate SClineager and show that genetics-based lineage tracing is applicable for single-cell-sequencing studies of both tumor and non-tumor tissues using SClineager. Overall, our work provides a powerful tool that can be applied to scRNA-seq data to decipher the lineage histories of cells and that could address a missing opportunity to reveal valuable information from the large amounts of existing scRNA-seq data.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

Enthalten in:

Cell reports - 34(2021), 1 vom: 05. Jan., Seite 108589

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lu, Tianshi [VerfasserIn]
Park, Seongoh [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, James [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yunguan [VerfasserIn]
Zhan, Xiaowei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xinlei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tao [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Drop-out
Genetics
Journal Article
Lineage tracing
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
ScRNA-seq

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Date Completed 06.12.2021

Date Revised 15.03.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108589

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319701913