Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Single-cell analysis of peripheral blood from high-altitude pulmonary hypertension patients identifies a distinct monocyte phenotype

  • Xin-Hua Wu,
  • Yang-Yang He,
  • Zhang-Rong Chen,
  • Ze-Yuan He,
  • Yi Yan,
  • Yangzhige He,
  • Guang-Ming Wang,
  • Yu Dong,
  • Ying Yang,
  • Yi-Min Sun,
  • Yong-Hong Ren,
  • Qiu-Yan Zhao,
  • Xiao-Dan Yang,
  • Li-Ying Wang,
  • Cai-Jun Fu,
  • Miao He,
  • Si-Jin Zhang,
  • Ji-Fen Fu,
  • Hong Liu,
  • Zhi-Cheng Jing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37527-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Single cell transcriptomic sequencing (scRNA) can identify genes that are differentially expressed in cell populations in specific diseases. Here the authors perform scRNA sequencing in a high-altitude pulmonary hypertension (HAPH) cohort and show transcriptional differences in monocyte populations.