Leveraging heterogeneity across multiple datasets increases cell-mixture deconvolution accuracy and reduces biological and technical biases

oleh: Francesco Vallania, Andrew Tam, Shane Lofgren, Steven Schaffert, Tej D. Azad, Erika Bongen, Winston Haynes, Meia Alsup, Michael Alonso, Mark Davis, Edgar Engleman, Purvesh Khatri

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-11-01

Deskripsi

Cell type deconvolution from bulk expression data rely on a reference expression matrix. Here, the authors introduce a basis matrix built using data from both healthy and diseased samples profiled on 42 platforms, reducing biases introduced by single-platform matrices built using healthy samples.