Batch effects and the effective design of single-cell gene expression studies

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Tung, Po Yuan ^a   Blischak, John D ^a   Hsiao, Chiaowen Joyce ^a   Knowles, David A ^b,c   Burnett, Jonathan E ^a   Pritchard, Jonathan K ^b   Gilad, Yoav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; RNA SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85008384488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep39921     Document Type: Article

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