Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

A practical solution to pseudoreplication bias in single-cell studies

  • Kip D. Zimmerman,
  • Mark A. Espeland,
  • Carl D. Langefeld

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21038-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Single cell genomics uses cells from the same individual, or pseudoreplicates, that can introduce biases and inflate type I error rates. Here the authors apply generalized linear mixed models with a random effect for individual, to properly account for both zero inflation and the correlation structure among cells within an individual.