Communications Biology (Feb 2023)

Single-cell transcriptome sequencing allows genetic separation, characterization and identification of individuals in multi-person biological mixtures

  • Lucie Kulhankova,
  • Diego Montiel González,
  • Eric Bindels,
  • Daniel Kling,
  • Manfred Kayser,
  • Eskeatnaf Mulugeta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04557-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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A method is developed by combining scRNA-sequencing and a bioinformatics pipeline to separate individuals in multi-person biological mixtures, and, subsequently, determine the ancestry and sex of the separated individuals and genetically identify them.