Tree-based Correlation Screen and Visualization for Exploring Phenotype-Cell Type Association in Multiple Sample Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Experiments

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Abstract

Single-cell RNA-seq experiments with multiple samples are increasingly used to discover cell types and their molecular features that may influence samples’ phenotype (e.g. disease). However, analyzing and visualizing the complex cell type-phenotype association remains nontrivial. TreeCorTreat is an open source R package that tackles this problem by using a tree -based cor relation screen to analyze and visualize the association between phenotype and tr anscriptomic f e atures a nd cell t ypes at multiple cell type resolution levels. With TreeCorTreat, one can conveniently explore and compare different feature types, phenotypic traits, analysis protocols and datasets, and evaluate the impacts of potential confounders.

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    Limma [53] was then used to conduct differential expression analysis for each node as follows.
    Limma
    suggested: (LIMMA, RRID:SCR_010943)
    COVID-19 PBMC single-cell RNA-seq data can be downloaded from the European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) and ArrayExpress database using the accession number: EGAS00001004571 and E-MTAB-9357.
    ArrayExpress
    suggested: (ArrayExpress, RRID:SCR_002964)
    NSCLC dataset can be downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus under the accession number GSE176021.
    Gene Expression Omnibus
    suggested: (Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, RRID:SCR_005012)

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