Title
Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.
Abstract
Cellular heterogeneity is present in almost all gene expression profiles. However, transcriptome analysis of tissue specimens often ignores the cellular heterogeneity present in these samples. Standard deconvolution algorithms require prior knowledge of the cell type frequencies within a tissue or their in vitro expression profiles. Furthermore, these algorithms tend to report biased estimations.Here, we describe a Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) for extracting cell-type specific gene expression profiles from mixed tissue samples that is unbiased and does not require prior knowledge of cell type frequencies.The results suggest that DSA is a specific and sensitivity algorithm in gene expression profile deconvolution and will be useful in studying individual cell types of complex tissues.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/1471-2105-14-89
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
microarrays,bioinformatics,gene expression profiling,algorithms
Biology,In vitro,Transcriptome,Deconvolution,Gene expression,Sorting,Cell type,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Gene expression profiling,DNA microarray
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.17
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Zhong1201.17
Ying-Wooi Wan2323.24
Kaifang Pang3383.36
Lionel M L Chow4201.17
Zhandong Liu5507.60