We propose that MASC is a broadly applicable method to identify disease-associated cell populations in high-dimensional single-cell data.Ībstract = "High-dimensional single-cell analyses have improved the ability to resolve complex mixtures of cells from human disease samples however, identifying disease-associated cell types or cell states in patient samples remains challenging because of technical and interindividual variation. CD27 − HLA-DR + cells expressed a distinctive effector memory transcriptomic program with T helper 1 (T H1)– and cytotoxicity-associated features and produced abundant interferon-g (IFN-g) and granzyme A protein upon stimulation. Compared to peripheral blood, synovial fluid and synovial tissue samples from RA patients contained about fivefold higher frequencies of CD27 − HLA-DR + cells, which comprised ~10% of synovial CD4 + T cells. Mass cytometry and flow cytometry analyses indicated that CD27 − HLA-DR + cells were associated with RA (meta-analysis P = 2.3 × 10 −4). The frequency of CD27 − HLA-DR + cells was similarly elevated in blood samples from a second RA patient cohort, and CD27 − HLA-DR + cell frequency decreased in RA patients who responded to immunosuppressive therapy. Applying MASC to mass cytometry analyses of CD4 + T cells from the blood of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and controls revealed a significantly expanded population of CD4 + T cells, identified as CD27 − HLA-DR + effector memory cells, in RA patients (odds ratio, 1.7 P = 1.1 × 10 −3). Here, we present mixed-effects modeling of associations of single cells (MASC), a reverse single-cell association strategy for testing whether case-control status influences the membership of single cells in any of multiple cellular subsets while accounting for technical confounders and biological variation.
High-dimensional single-cell analyses have improved the ability to resolve complex mixtures of cells from human disease samples however, identifying disease-associated cell types or cell states in patient samples remains challenging because of technical and interindividual variation.
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