Single-nucleus cross-tissue molecular reference maps toward understanding disease gene function.
Science
; 376(6594): eabl4290, 2022 05 13.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35549429
ABSTRACT
Understanding gene function and regulation in homeostasis and disease requires knowledge of the cellular and tissue contexts in which genes are expressed. Here, we applied four single-nucleus RNA sequencing methods to eight diverse, archived, frozen tissue types from 16 donors and 25 samples, generating a cross-tissue atlas of 209,126 nuclei profiles, which we integrated across tissues, donors, and laboratory methods with a conditional variational autoencoder. Using the resulting cross-tissue atlas, we highlight shared and tissue-specific features of tissue-resident cell populations; identify cell types that might contribute to neuromuscular, metabolic, and immune components of monogenic diseases and the biological processes involved in their pathology; and determine cell types and gene modules that might underlie disease mechanisms for complex traits analyzed by genome-wide association studies.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cell Nucleus
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Disease
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RNA-Seq
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Science
Year:
2022
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States