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Detecting Fear-Memory-Related Genes from Neuronal scRNA-seq Data by Diverse Distributions and Bhattacharyya Distance
The detection of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) is one of most important computational challenges in the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. However, due to the high heterogeneity and dropout noise inherent in scRNAseq data, challenges in detecting DEGs exist when using a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36009024 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12081130 |
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author | Zhang, Shaoqiang Xie, Linjuan Cui, Yaxuan Carone, Benjamin R. Chen, Yong |
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description | The detection of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) is one of most important computational challenges in the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. However, due to the high heterogeneity and dropout noise inherent in scRNAseq data, challenges in detecting DEGs exist when using a single distribution of gene expression levels, leaving much room to improve the precision and robustness of current DEG detection methods. Here, we propose the use of a new method, DEGman, which utilizes several possible diverse distributions in combination with Bhattacharyya distance. DEGman can automatically select the best-fitting distributions of gene expression levels, and then detect DEGs by permutation testing of Bhattacharyya distances of the selected distributions from two cell groups. Compared with several popular DEG analysis tools on both large-scale simulation data and real scRNA-seq data, DEGman shows an overall improvement in the balance of sensitivity and precision. We applied DEGman to scRNA-seq data of TRAP; Ai14 mouse neurons to detect fear-memory-related genes that are significantly differentially expressed in neurons with and without fear memory. DEGman detected well-known fear-memory-related genes and many novel candidates. Interestingly, we found 25 DEGs in common in five neuron clusters that are functionally enriched for synaptic vesicles, indicating that the coupled dynamics of synaptic vesicles across in neurons plays a critical role in remote memory formation. The proposed method leverages the advantage of the use of diverse distributions in DEG analysis, exhibiting better performance in analyzing composite scRNA-seq datasets in real applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-94058752022-08-26 Detecting Fear-Memory-Related Genes from Neuronal scRNA-seq Data by Diverse Distributions and Bhattacharyya Distance Zhang, Shaoqiang Xie, Linjuan Cui, Yaxuan Carone, Benjamin R. Chen, Yong Biomolecules Article The detection of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) is one of most important computational challenges in the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. However, due to the high heterogeneity and dropout noise inherent in scRNAseq data, challenges in detecting DEGs exist when using a single distribution of gene expression levels, leaving much room to improve the precision and robustness of current DEG detection methods. Here, we propose the use of a new method, DEGman, which utilizes several possible diverse distributions in combination with Bhattacharyya distance. DEGman can automatically select the best-fitting distributions of gene expression levels, and then detect DEGs by permutation testing of Bhattacharyya distances of the selected distributions from two cell groups. Compared with several popular DEG analysis tools on both large-scale simulation data and real scRNA-seq data, DEGman shows an overall improvement in the balance of sensitivity and precision. We applied DEGman to scRNA-seq data of TRAP; Ai14 mouse neurons to detect fear-memory-related genes that are significantly differentially expressed in neurons with and without fear memory. DEGman detected well-known fear-memory-related genes and many novel candidates. Interestingly, we found 25 DEGs in common in five neuron clusters that are functionally enriched for synaptic vesicles, indicating that the coupled dynamics of synaptic vesicles across in neurons plays a critical role in remote memory formation. The proposed method leverages the advantage of the use of diverse distributions in DEG analysis, exhibiting better performance in analyzing composite scRNA-seq datasets in real applications. MDPI 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9405875/ /pubmed/36009024 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12081130 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Shaoqiang Xie, Linjuan Cui, Yaxuan Carone, Benjamin R. Chen, Yong Detecting Fear-Memory-Related Genes from Neuronal scRNA-seq Data by Diverse Distributions and Bhattacharyya Distance |
title | Detecting Fear-Memory-Related Genes from Neuronal scRNA-seq Data by Diverse Distributions and Bhattacharyya Distance |
title_full | Detecting Fear-Memory-Related Genes from Neuronal scRNA-seq Data by Diverse Distributions and Bhattacharyya Distance |
title_fullStr | Detecting Fear-Memory-Related Genes from Neuronal scRNA-seq Data by Diverse Distributions and Bhattacharyya Distance |
title_full_unstemmed | Detecting Fear-Memory-Related Genes from Neuronal scRNA-seq Data by Diverse Distributions and Bhattacharyya Distance |
title_short | Detecting Fear-Memory-Related Genes from Neuronal scRNA-seq Data by Diverse Distributions and Bhattacharyya Distance |
title_sort | detecting fear-memory-related genes from neuronal scrna-seq data by diverse distributions and bhattacharyya distance |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36009024 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom12081130 |
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