Article ; Online: Data-driven detection of age-related arbitrary monotonic changes in single-cell gene expression distributions.
2024 Volume 12, Page(s) e16851
Abstract: Identification of genes whose expression increases or decreases with age is central to understanding the mechanisms behind aging. Recent scRNA-seq studies have shown that changes in single-cell expression profiles with aging are complex and diverse. In ... ...
Abstract | Identification of genes whose expression increases or decreases with age is central to understanding the mechanisms behind aging. Recent scRNA-seq studies have shown that changes in single-cell expression profiles with aging are complex and diverse. In this study, we introduce a novel workflow to detect changes in the distribution of arbitrary monotonic age-related changes in single-cell expression profiles. Since single-cell gene expression profiles can be analyzed as probability distributions, our approach uses information theory to quantify the differences between distributions and employs distance matrices for association analysis. We tested this technique on simulated data and confirmed that potential parameter changes could be detected in a set of probability distributions. Application of the technique to a public scRNA-seq dataset demonstrated its potential utility as a straightforward screening method for identifying aging-related cellular features. |
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MeSH term(s) | Gene Expression/genetics ; Single-Cell Analysis ; Cellular Senescence |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-02-08 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 2703241-3 |
ISSN | 2167-8359 ; 2167-8359 |
ISSN (online) | 2167-8359 |
ISSN | 2167-8359 |
DOI | 10.7717/peerj.16851 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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