从单细胞基因表达测量估计内在和外在噪声
Estimating intrinsic and extrinsic noise from single-cell gene expression measurements
摘要:
基因表达是随机的,并且在细胞内和细胞之间显示变异(“噪声”)。细胞内(内在的)方差可以从细胞外(外在的)方差通过应用总方差的法律,从两个报告基因检测,探测在单细胞中相同的基因对的表达的数据进行区分。我们研究建立的固有和外在噪声的估计公式,并提供他们的层次模型的解释。这使我们能够得到最小化均方误差的校正,当样本量很小时,这一目标可能很重要。统计框架还强调了分位数归一化的必要性,并提供了使用两个报告基因表达水平之间的样本相关性来估计外部噪声对总噪声的贡献百分比的理由。最后,我们提供了一个几何解释这些结果,澄清目前的解释。
英文摘要:
Gene expression is stochastic and displays variation ("noise") both within and between cells. Intracellular (intrinsic) variance can be distinguished from extracellular (extrinsic) variance by applying the law of total variance to data from two-reporter assays that probe expression of identical gene pairs in single-cells. We examine established formulas for the estimation of intrinsic and extrinsic noise and provide interpretations of them in terms of a hierarchical model. This allows us to derive corrections that minimize the mean squared error, an objective that may be important when sample sizes are small. The statistical framework also highlights the need for quantile normalization, and provides justification for the use of the sample correlation between the two reporter expression levels to estimate the percent contribution of extrinsic noise to the total noise. Finally, we provide a geometric interpretation of these results that clarifies the current interpretation.
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