MIND: using multiple measurements of tissue to estimate subject-and cell-type-specific gene expression
Estimate subject- and cell-type-specific gene expression (saved as
deconv$A
below) using bulk gene expression data and pre-estimated cell
type fractions:
X
: bulk gene expression (gene x subject x measure)W
: cell type fraction (subject x measure x cell type)
library(MIND)
data(example)
deconv = mind(X = example$X, W = example$W)
For details, please see the PDF manual.
The cell type fraction can be pre-estimated using est_frac()
(based on
non-negative least squares, see an example here) or another standard deconvolution method. It requires a
signature matrix derived from reference samples of single-cell RNA-seq
data.
MIND: Wang, Jiebiao, Bernie Devlin, and Kathryn Roeder. "Using multiple measurements of tissue to estimate subject-and cell-type-specific gene expression." Bioinformatics 36.3 (2020): 782-788. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz619