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Isoform-level gene expression patterns in single-cell RNA-sequencing data

Trung Nghia Vu·Quin F Wills·Krishna R Kalari·Nifang Niu·Liewei Wang·Yudi Pawitan·Mattias Rantalainen
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RNA-sequencing of single-cells enables characterization of transcriptional heterogeneity in seemingly homogenous cell populations. In this study we propose and apply a novel method, ISOform-Patterns (ISOP), based on mixture modeling, to characterize the expression patterns of pairs of isoforms from the same gene in single-cell isoform-level expression data. We define six principal patterns of isoform expression relationships and introduce the concept of differential pattern analysis. We applied ISOP for analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing data from a breast cancer cell line, with replication in two independent datasets. In the primary dataset we detected and assigned pattern type of 16562 isoform-pairs from 4929 genes. Our results showed that 78% of the isoform pairs displayed a mutually exclusive expression pattern, 14% of the isoform pairs displayed bimodal isoform preference and 8% isoform pairs displayed isoform preference. 26% of the isoform-pair patterns were significant, while remaining isoform-pair patterns can be understood as effects of transcriptional bursting, drop-out and biological heterogeneity. 32% of genes discovered through differential pattern analysis were novel and not detected by differential expression analysis. ISOP provides a novel approach for characterization of isoform-level expression in single-cell populations. Our results reveal a common occurrence of isoform-level preference, commitment and heterogeneity in single-cell populations.

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Trung Nghia Vu, Quin F Wills, Krishna R Kalari, Nifang Niu, Liewei Wang, Yudi Pawitan, Mattias Rantalainen. 2016-01-16. Isoform-level gene expression patterns in single-cell RNA-sequencing data. https://doi.org/10.1101/036988

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