CeDAR: incorporating cell type hierarchy improves cell type-specific differential analyses in bulk omics data

Autor: Luxiao Chen, Ziyi Li, Hao Wu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Genome Biology, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-26 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1474-760X
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-02857-5
Popis: Abstract Bulk high-throughput omics data contain signals from a mixture of cell types. Recent developments of deconvolution methods facilitate cell type-specific inferences from bulk data. Our real data exploration suggests that differential expression or methylation status is often correlated among cell types. Based on this observation, we develop a novel statistical method named CeDAR to incorporate the cell type hierarchy in cell type-specific differential analyses of bulk data. Extensive simulation and real data analyses demonstrate that this approach significantly improves the accuracy and power in detecting cell type-specific differential signals compared with existing methods, especially in low-abundance cell types.
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