Journal: Cell Reports Methods
Article Title: Differential expression analysis in single-cell and spatial RNA-seq without model assumptions
doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2026.101383
Figure Lengend Snippet: Weighted statistical testing reduces false-positive DGE in spRNA-seq (Visium HD assay) (A) Top: Proliferating chondrocytes were selected in 3 sections from the same E18.5 tibia; shaded areas show the selected regions in high resolution images of H&E-stained sections. Bottom: Zoomed images of the selected areas. Colored dots mark 8 × 8 μm 2 bins used for the analysis of gene expression, which passed quality control based on the following criteria: >20 features per bin, >100 counts other than Col1a1 or Col1a2 per bin, mitochondrial genes between 0.1% and 5% UMI, and Col2a1 > 5% UMI. The bin color represents the relative expression of Col2a1 ( n Col 2 a 1, i ×10,000). (B) DGE analysis performed with the weighted t test- χ 2 test combination and Seurat’s FindMarkers function for all 3 possible pairwise comparisons between the selected areas. Only genes detected in at least 10% of the bins were analyzed.
Article Snippet: For simplicity and consistency, we compare the results produced by our method with the standard models within the Seurat workflow, using publicly available 10× Genomics scRNA-seq datasets ( https://www.10xgenomics.com/datasets ) and our spRNA-seq data collected with the 10× Genomics Visium HD assay.
Techniques: HD Assay, Staining, Gene Expression, Control, Expressing