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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67513-5
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资金
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [HL-095056, HL-28481, U01 DK105561]
- HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
- NIH [F31HL142180, T32HG002536, DK41301, 1R56MD013312, 1R01MH115979, 5R25GM112625, 5UL1TR001881]
- National Science Foundation [1705197]
- NIH/NHGRI [HG010505-02]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program [DGE-1650604]
- AHA [19PRE34430112]
- Academy of Finland [272376, 266286, 314383, 315035]
- Finnish Medical Foundation
- Finnish Diabetes Research Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- Helsinki University Hospital Research Funds
- University of Helsinki
- DDRC Pilot and Feasibility of the National Institutes of Health [DKP3041301]
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at UCLA, CTSI [ULTR001881]
- Gyllenberg Foundation
Single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) measures gene expression in individual nuclei instead of cells, allowing for unbiased cell type characterization in solid tissues. We observe that snRNA-seq is commonly subject to contamination by high amounts of ambient RNA, which can lead to biased downstream analyses, such as identification of spurious cell types if overlooked. We present a novel approach to quantify contamination and filter droplets in snRNA-seq experiments, called Debris Identification using Expectation Maximization (DIEM). Our likelihood-based approach models the gene expression distribution of debris and cell types, which are estimated using EM. We evaluated DIEM using three snRNA-seq data sets: (1) human differentiating preadipocytes in vitro, (2) fresh mouse brain tissue, and (3) human frozen adipose tissue (AT) from six individuals. All three data sets showed evidence of extranuclear RNA contamination, and we observed that existing methods fail to account for contaminated droplets and led to spurious cell types. When compared to filtering using these state of the art methods, DIEM better removed droplets containing high levels of extranuclear RNA and led to higher quality clusters. Although DIEM was designed for snRNA-seq, our clustering strategy also successfully filtered single-cell RNA-seq data. To conclude, our novel method DIEM removes debris-contaminated droplets from single-cell-based data fast and effectively, leading to cleaner downstream analysis. Our code is freely available for use at https://github.com/marcalva/diem.
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