MQuad enables clonal substructure discovery using single cell mitochondrial variants
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS(2022)
摘要
Mitochondrial mutations are increasingly recognised as informative endogenous genetic markers that can be used to reconstruct cellular clonal structure using single-cell RNA or DNA sequencing data. However, identifying informative mtDNA variants in noisy and sparse single-cell sequencing data is still challenging with few computation methods available. Here we present an open source computational tool MQuad that accurately calls clonally informative mtDNA variants in a population of single cells, and an analysis suite for complete clonality inference, based on single cell RNA, DNA or ATAC sequencing data. Through a variety of simulated and experimental single cell sequencing data, we showed that MQuad can identify mitochondrial variants with both high sensitivity and specificity, outperforming existing methods by a large extent. Furthermore, we demonstrate its wide applicability in different single cell sequencing protocols, particularly in complementing single-nucleotide and copy-number variations to extract finer clonal resolution.
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mitochondrial variants,clonal substructure discovery,single cell
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