Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

MQuad enables clonal substructure discovery using single cell mitochondrial variants

  • Aaron Wing Cheung Kwok,
  • Chen Qiao,
  • Rongting Huang,
  • Mai-Har Sham,
  • Joshua W. K. Ho,
  • Yuanhua Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28845-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Mitochondrial variants are informative endogenous barcodes for clonal substructure. Here, the authors developed a computational method MQuad to effectively detect these clonal informed mtDNA variants from single-cell RNA, DNA or ATAC sequencing data.