Mucosal-associated invariant T cell responses differ by sex in COVID-19

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: Ethics statement: This study and relevant protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Duke University Health System (DUHS) ?.
    Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects or legally authorized representatives.
    RandomizationPBMC scRNA-seq data were randomly downsampled to 50,000 cells and T and monocyte clusters were extracted based on the expression of their lineage markers.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Antibody titrations used in this study were previously established by Cytek Biosciences with slight modifications (see Table S2 for flow panel information).
    Cytek Biosciences
    suggested: None
    Raw data were unmixed and further analyzed using either FlowJo for manual gating or Omiq (https://www.omiq.ai) for clustering visualization and analysis.
    FlowJo
    suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)
    High-dimensional data analysis of flow cytometry data: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) and FlowSOM clustering analyses were performed on Omiq (https://www.omiq.ai), using equal random sampling of 3000 live CD45+ singlets. from each FCS file.
    FlowSOM
    suggested: (FlowSOM, RRID:SCR_016899)
    FASTQ files were aligned with STAR aligner to the human genome reference GRCh38 from Ensemble database.
    STAR
    suggested: (STAR, RRID:SCR_015899)
    Inference of ligand-receptor interactions between T cells and monocytes: Ligand-receptor interactions between T cells and monocytes were inferred using CellPhoneDB (33).
    CellPhoneDB
    suggested: (CellPhoneDB, RRID:SCR_017054)
    Graphical data of quantifications presented throughout are expressed as the means ± SEMs and were plotted using Graphpad Prism 8.
    Graphpad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)
    Other graphs in this study were generated using either the corresponding analytic packages or R package ggplot2.
    ggplot2
    suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)

    Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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