Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Accurate estimation of cell-type composition from gene expression data

  • Daphne Tsoucas,
  • Rui Dong,
  • Haide Chen,
  • Qian Zhu,
  • Guoji Guo,
  • Guo-Cheng Yuan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10802-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Bulk RNA-seq data harbors valuable information about gene expression levels from different cell types in tissue samples. Here, the authors develop DWLS, a computational method for estimating cell-type composition of bulk data by leveraging single-cell RNA-seq-derived cell-type signatures.