Journal
CELL RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 304-319Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2016.23
Keywords
scTrio-seq; CNV; transcriptome; DNA methylome; HCC
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31322037, 81521002, 21327808, 81561138005, 81372604, 31271543]
- Ministry of Sciences and Technology of China [2012CB966704]
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Single-cell genome, DNA methylome, and transcriptome sequencing methods have been separately developed. However, to accurately analyze the mechanism by which transcriptome, genome and DNA methylome regulate each other, these omic methods need to be performed in the same single cell. Here we demonstrate a single-cell triple omics sequencing technique, scTrio-seq, that can be used to simultaneously analyze the genomic copy-number variations (CNVs), DNA methylome, and transcriptome of an individual mammalian cell. We show that large-scale CNVs cause proportional changes in RNA expression of genes within the gained or lost genomic regions, whereas these CNVs generally do not affect DNA methylation in these regions. Furthermore, we applied scTrio-seq to 25 single cancer cells derived from a human hepatocellular carcinoma tissue sample. We identified two subpopulations within these cells based on CNVs, DNA methylome, or transcriptome of individual cells. Our work offers a new avenue of dissecting the complex contribution of genomic and epigenomic heterogeneities to the transcriptomic heterogeneity within a population of cells.
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