Journal
GENOME BIOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1922-x
Keywords
Single-cell RNA sequencing; Intratumor heterogeneity; Cancer genomics; Phylogeny inference; Multi-omics analysis
Funding
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [1P01CA210944-01, 5R01-HG006137-07, 1U2CCA233285-01]
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Although scRNA-seq is now ubiquitously adopted in studies of intratumor heterogeneity, detection of somatic mutations and inference of clonal membership from scRNA-seq is currently unreliable. We propose DENDRO, an analysis method for scRNA-seq data that clusters single cells into genetically distinct subclones and reconstructs the phylogenetic tree relating the subclones. DENDRO utilizes transcribed point mutations and accounts for technical noise and expression stochasticity. We benchmark DENDRO and demonstrate its application on simulation data and real data from three cancer types. In particular, on a mouse melanoma model in response to immunotherapy, DENDRO delineates the role of neoantigens in treatment response.
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