RNA sequencing data: hitchhiker's guide to expression analysis

K Van den Berge, KM Hembach… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Gene expression is the fundamental level at which the results of various genetic and
regulatory programs are observable. The measurement of transcriptome-wide gene …

High-resolution single-cell atlas reveals diversity and plasticity of tissue-resident neutrophils in non-small cell lung cancer

S Salcher, G Sturm, L Horvath, G Untergasser… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is characterized by molecular heterogeneity with
diverse immune cell infiltration patterns, which has been linked to therapy sensitivity and …

SARS-CoV-2 infects and replicates in cells of the human endocrine and exocrine pancreas

JA Müller, R Groß, C Conzelmann, J Krüger… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Infection-related diabetes can arise as a result of virus-associated β-cell destruction. Clinical
data suggest that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

eccDNAs are apoptotic products with high innate immunostimulatory activity

Y Wang, M Wang, MN Djekidel, H Chen, D Liu, FW Alt… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal circular DNA elements (eccDNAs) have been described in the literature
for several decades, and are known for their broad existence across different species …

Radiotherapy in combination with CD47 blockade elicits a macrophage-mediated abscopal effect

Y Nishiga, AP Drainas, M Baron, D Bhattacharya… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Radiation therapy is a mainstay of cancer treatment but does not always lead to complete
tumor regression. Here we combine radiotherapy with blockade of the 'don't-eat-me'cell …

Heavy-tailed prior distributions for sequence count data: removing the noise and preserving large differences

A Zhu, JG Ibrahim, MI Love - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation In RNA-seq differential expression analysis, investigators aim to detect those
genes with changes in expression level across conditions, despite technical and biological …

Leveraging polygenic functional enrichment to improve GWAS power

G Kichaev, G Bhatia, PR Loh, S Gazal, K Burch… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Functional genomics data has the potential to increase GWAS power by identifying SNPs
that have a higher prior probability of association. Here, we introduce a method that …

Bias, robustness and scalability in single-cell differential expression analysis

C Soneson, MD Robinson - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Many methods have been used to determine differential gene expression from single-cell
RNA (scRNA)-seq data. We evaluated 36 approaches using experimental and synthetic …

Single-cell dissection of the obesity-exercise axis in adipose-muscle tissues implies a critical role for mesenchymal stem cells

J Yang, M Vamvini, P Nigro, LL Ho, K Galani, M Alvarez… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Exercise training is critical for the prevention and treatment of obesity, but its underlying
mechanisms remain incompletely understood given the challenge of profiling …

Histone H2AK119 mono-ubiquitination is essential for polycomb-mediated transcriptional repression

S Tamburri, E Lavarone, D Fernández-Pérez… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Polycomb group proteins (PcGs) maintain transcriptional repression to preserve cellular
identity in two distinct repressive complexes, PRC1 and PRC2, that modify histones by …