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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2025

Exploring cell-to-cell variability and functional insights through differentially variable gene analysis.

Victoria Gatlin, Shreyan Gupta, Selim Romero, Robert S Chapkin, James J Cai

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Article in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Victoria GatlinDepartment of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-5887-2314
Shreyan GuptaDepartment of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1904-9862
Selim RomeroDepartment of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
Robert S ChapkinCPRIT Single Cell Data Science Core, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
James J CaiDepartment of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA. jcai@tamu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8081-6725

Funding

Texas A&M Center for Environmental Health Research (TiCER)P30ES029067 · NIEHS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI Sakhila Banu · 2019 to 2026
$13.0M
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas) RP230204NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES029067U.S. Department of Defense (United States Department of Defense) GW200026
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized our understanding of cellular variability by capturing gene expression profiles of individual cells. The importance of cell-to-cell variability in determining and shaping cell function has been widely appreciated. Nevertheless, differential expression (DE) analysis remains a cornerstone method in analytical practice. Current computational analyses overlook the rich information encoded by variability within the single-cell gene expression data by focusing exclusively on mean expression. To offer a deeper understanding of cellular systems, there is a need for approaches to assess data variability rather than just the mean. Here we present spline-DV, a statistical framework for differential variability (DV) analysis using scRNA-seq data. The spline-DV method identifies genes exhibiting significantly increased or decreased expression variability among cells derived from two experimental conditions. Case studies show that DV genes identified using spline-DV are representative and functionally relevant to tested cellular conditions, including obesity, fibrosis, and cancer.

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Computational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingSingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsHumansNeoplasmsObesityRNA-SeqSequence Analysis, RNATranscriptome

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PMID40113778
PMCPMC11926233

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